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The Red & Black | Thursday, July 6, 2006 | 3
Student interns pave
future political paths
Interns’ task:
polling voters
By BRITTANEY CARTER
For The Red & Black
For many, summertime
means poolside conversa
tions and sleeping in, but
Justin Mann spends most of
his days running.
The senior from
Columbus is an intern for
Georgia House District 115
candidate Doug McKillip.
Mann’s primary responsi
bility is to talk to Athens
residents about campaign
issues for the upcoming elec
tions.
On a good day Mann
reaches 50 houses in three
hours.
“I jog quite a bit when I go
door-knocking. The other
day I started on Timothy
Road and ended up towards
Loop 10,” he said.
Mann is just one of a num
ber of University students
passing their summer hours
in closet-sized offices and
trekking through neighbor
hoods in humid heat —
and they are happy to do it.
These students are trying
to get a head start on a
political career, and they
spend long hours interning
for the politicians of their
choice.
Most interns are unpaid
and work without the prom
ise of class credit.
So why are they spending
valuable slacker time in
such high-stress environ
ments?
The work paid off for
Mallory Black, a senior from
Preston, after she began
volunteering for Gary Black,
a candidate for Agricultural
Commissioner, last
September.
Now the agribusiness
major has a paid position as
a scheduler for his campaign.
“A great part of working
for him is the networking,”
Black said. “I’ve met a lot of
agribusinessmen and made
friends with a lot of people
that will help me find a
future job.”
Wayne Cartwright, a soph
omore from Milan, is working
for gubernatorial candidate
Cathy Cox, and he said he is
campaigning simply because
he cares.
“Our generation is per
ceived as a lot of young
people who don’t care about
the future, but because I’m
working on the campaign, I
get to talk to young people
who do care,” Cartwright
said. “It’s uplifting to talk to
them because they have a lot
of great ideas, and it makes
me feel like I’m not the only
one who cares.”
According to Cartwright,
most interns talk to these
concerned people through
contacting prospective vot
ers for the July 18 primary by
phone and going door-to-
door.
Cartwright, who often
works nine-hour days as an
unpaid volunteer for Cox’s
campaign, described his
work as intense.
“When we have a 5 p.m.
deadline, the time from 12
p.m. to 5 p.m. seems like one
hour, and then you drive
home feeling half-dead at the
end of the day,” he said.
Through their door-
knocking, phone-calling and
jogging these students are
making substantial contri-
ELECTION SCHEDULE
>- July 18: Republican and
Democratic primaries
>- Nov. 7: General election
Friday was the qualifying dead
line for 2006 Athens non-parti
san mayoral candidates.
Here are the candidates resi
dents will vote for on Nov. 7.
CANDIDATES:
>- Heidi Davison, current
mayor of Athens-Clarke
County.
> Tom Chasteen, county com
missioner and owner of
Independent Insurance Agency.
>- Charlie Maddox, state
Department of Labor district
director, chairman of the Board
of Commissioners of the
Athens Housing Authority and
Pastor of Twin Oak Baptist
Church
>- Andy Rusk, local carpenter
>- Richard DeRose, local who
also ran for mayor in 2002.
butions to their respective
campaigns, while proving
that interning is more than
just making coffee and fetch
ing lunch.
Robert Mabry, campaign
manager for McKillip,
said the help of college
interns with the current
campaign has enabled his
team
to get an early start on
contacting prospective vot
ers.
“Knocking on doors and
talking to people is so
important to galvanizing the
public and getting them
excited,” Mabry said. “It’s
also something that would
be impossible without stu
dent interns.”
Del Dunn,
the cur
rent vice
president
for
instruction
will retire
on Dec. 1.
Dunn
retires
on top
After nearly 40 years at
the University, Vice
President for Instruction
Del Dunn will retire Dec.
1.
“Few people have con
tributed to the
University’s academic
advancement more con
sistently and conscien
tiously over a longer peri
od of time than Del,” said
University President
Michael Adams in a news
release.
Dunn’s University
career began in 1967 as a
political science faculty
member. At the
University, Dunn has
taught, written a piece on
public administration and
sat on a number of differ
ent committees that
shaped the institution.
Dunn was co-chair of
the Task Force on
General Education and
Student Learning, which
focused on enhancing
academic rigor.
In 2002, Dunn was
appointed to vice presi
dent of instruction, while
also a Regents Professor
of public administration
in the School of Public
and International Affairs.
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