As you probably already know, the Student Stores is charging students 15 cents per blue book. We at The Daily Tar Heel want to give back to our campus community by providing blue books in copies of The Daily Tar Heel on Wednesday, January 30th. Here is the ad about the free giveaway.
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The New Hampshire debates on Saturday night accomplished a rare feat – they actually provided insight into the candidates. ABC’s Charlie Gibson should be given some credit for trying a new format that gave the candidates more opportunity to explain themselves and respond to each other.
Some of my favorite moments:
After Ron Paul suggested American foreign policy was to blame for the rising current of anti-American sentiment, the rest of the field rushed in to assert their Americana credentials.
Rudy Giuliani went further than anyone, claiming that Islamic terrorism stems from perverted religion. “This comes out of their own perverted thinking,” he said.
Giuliani also never missed an opportunity to uphold his political hero, Ronald Reagan. If we gave out a nickel for every time he invoked Reagan, we could restart trickle-down economics.
Mitt Romney woke up and remembered he had once been an advocate of mandatory health care insurance, saying, “I like mandates.” But, lest he be confused for a Democrat, Romney quickly backpedaled, saying mandates only work at the state level, and each state should be encouraged to make their own plan.
Romney and John McCain got into a veritable catfight over whether McCain’s plan for immigration reform constituted amnesty. McCain shot back later in the debate, accusing Romney of flip-flopping through the backhanded compliment: “You are the candidate of change.”
Huckabee had one of the best moments of the night right at the end of debate when each candidate was given an opportunity to attack Obama. Huckabee acknowledged that Obama is a likable candidate who has excited voters, and he warned his fellow Republicans that they would lose the election, and thus lose important issues, if they didn’t stand for something.
By the way, during the Democratic debate Gibson claimed “experts” say there is a 30 percent chance of a nuclear attack on an American city in the next 10 years…just so y’all know.
Edwards and Clinton take the night’s award for best dramatic performance. Edwards aligned himself with Obama, saying the “status quo” attacks whenever advocates speak out for change. Clinton mounted a spirited response, saying that change takes hard work, not just promises, and that she is running on 35 years of making change.
But for my money, Richardson made the most interesting contribution to the change v. experience debate, succinctly questioning, “What’s wrong with experience?”
“We all want change,” he said. “Is experience a leper?”
Gibson raised the issue of “likeability” late in the debate, claiming Obama has proved more likable than Clinton. Clinton gamely responded, “Well, that hurts my feelings…but I’ll try to go on.” Obama awkwardly took the bait, nearly mumbling, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.”
Well, it’s not really gold. It’s probably brass or some other kind of durable metal, but gold sounds better. At the annual Associated Collegiate Press conference last month, The Daily Tar Heel was awarded “Best of Show” in the newspaper category. The DTH won the same award last year. A former graphics editor Kurt Gentry won first place for the infographic category, and senior writer Jim Walsh won third place in the feature story category. The Daily Tar Heel Web site was a finalist for the online Pacemaker.
The 86th convention, which includes hundreds of college newspapers across the country, was held in Washington, D.C.
Poor, new staffers. As if AP Style and slugs aren’t confusing enough, our more than 160 DTH newbies have to try to keep track of all our recently-hired editors. In the last month, several DTHers have stepped down (each for different reasons), and their positions have had to be filled.
Today on the cover of The Daily Tar Heel, there were two photos that went along with the “Law School Evacuated” story. Don’t think it’s easy to capture the day’s news. Our DTH photogs, Julie Turkewitz and Tim Reese, had to go above and beyond to get the right angle for this picture:
Thanks goes out to our young men, Anthony Harris and Ted Strong, for dedicating their shoulders to the pursuit of great journalism. Also thank you, John Derrick, for taking our photogs pictures. We’re always looking for more crazy people like ourselves. Let me know if you need a job.
I’m looking for some online posters to help update the web site at night. I’m immediately hiring because of a shortage of staff. Training will start next week.
The time commitment = about three hours per night once or twice a week
Online posters can also be trained in multimedia and can assist with the redesign of the site. Think about how great your resume will look to have that you helped update a news web site which has over 750,000 page views per month.
The office was spruced up over the summer. They knocked out a wall, gave us some new computers and installed some groovy desks in the backshop. You can check out more about the changes at our general manager’s blog.
As you probably already know, the Student Stores is charging students 15 cents per blue book. We at The Daily Tar Heel want to give back to our campus community by providing blue books in copies of The Daily Tar Heel on Wednesday, January 30th. Here is the ad about the free giveaway.
Brittany Spencer (Deputy Managing Editor) —-> Rachel Ullrich
Ricky Leung (Photo Editor) —-> Allie Mullin
Chris Sopher (Multimedia Editor) —-> Timothy Reese
Michael Buchanan (Copy Co-Editor) —-> Lindsey Naylor (not the StatNat editor; the otha one)
