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The Red & Black | Tuesday, November 7, 2006 | 7
VOTERS: Students influenced by parents’ voting record
Woman
reports
assault
By JUANITA COUSINS
jcousins@randb.com
A 19-year-old female
University student was sexu
ally assaulted by a man she
knows at her downtown
apartment home, police said.
The student told police
she was asleep early Saturday
when the man assaulted her
with his fingers, said Athens-
Clarke County Lt. Greg Paul.
The woman woke up and
confronted the man, and he
left the apartment, the police
report said.
Paul said this was an
“arranged situation” in which
the female knew the male was
at her apartment “and he
took advantage of her.”
The woman was under the
influence of alcohol, Paul
said.
Police are not yet releasing
the name of the apartment
complex where the reported
event occurred.
The case is still under
investigation. There are two
witnesses.
ALCOHOL:
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is one piece to education and
awareness.”
The program was designed
to help students identify and
track their individual drinking
behaviors and the risks,
according to
myStudentBody.com.
Many students said they
already know much of the
information on the test.
“A lot of freshmen already
knew the risks beforehand,”
said Megan Upchurch, a
freshman from Newnan. “And
a lot of the information is stuff
you’ve learned about since
middle school.”
Bobby Andres, a freshman
from Marietta, said, “I
thought it was stupid.
Everyone basically gets that
alcohol kills brain cells.”
“I don’t drink at all and I
knew already,” he said.
But English said the
course isn’t aimed only at
drinkers.
“It’s an issue that affects
people who choose to drink or
choose not to drink,” English
said.
Non-drinkers can learn to
recognize warning signs of
alcohol poisoning or abuse,
she said.
Despite some students
who said the course wasn’t
very useful, research by the
company shows the lessons
on myStudentBody.com to be
effective.
“As with any new program,
there are certain kinks to get
out,” English said.
And some students said at
a Student Government
Association meeting last
month that they knew of stu
dents who were getting
answers to the test from the
Internet.
English emphasized the
alcohol course is one compo
nent of the University’s plan
to educate and create aware
ness about alcohol.
“It’s not a magic bullet
solution by any means,” she
said.
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don’t vote, Hood empha
sized this is not true of all
University students. Hood
pointed to the University’s
large College Republican
chapter as a body of stu
dents he expects to vote
today.
Hood said politically
active University students
probably were exposed to
politics early by their par
ents and participated before
they could even vote.
University political sci
ence professor Charles
Bullock also said students
are influenced by their par
ents.
“College students often
vote the way their parents
do,” Bullock said.
Unlike their parents,
Bullock said college stu
dents don’t have mortgages,
car payments, tuition costs
or concerns about covering a
family’s health care costs.
As these pressures begin
to weigh on former students,
these voters become more
conservative and tend to
vote Republican, Bullock
said.
Bullock also said colle
giate voters may cast their
vote for the candidate clos
est to themselves in age.
Bulock said while the dif
ference between a 50-year
old candidate and a 60-year
old probably doesn’t matter
to students, Bulloch said a
20- or 30-year-old candidate
may “resonate” more with
younger voters.
Jennifer McLeroy, a junior
from Watkinsville, said she
doesn’t factor a candidate’s
age into her vote.
“Whether they’re 30 or 50,
I don’t care,” she said. “As
long as they can still use
their brain, I would consider
them.”
Instead, McLeroy said she
considers the candidate’s
stance on moral issues, such
as abortion and gay mar
riage, the decisive factor in
her vote.
Tiffany Hobbs, a sopho
more from Augusta, said she
is looking for a candidate
who focuses on relevant
issues as opposed to running
a negative campaign.
“It seems like (politi
cians’) approaches are ‘I’m
going to attack the other dog
just because they attack
me.’”
Hobbs said she considers
economic issues, such as
combatting poverty, impor
tant to this year’s elections.
Hobbs also said she
decided to vote — by absen
tee ballot — largely at the
behest of her parents.
John Hackney, a graduate
student from Atlanta, said
he won’t be voting today
because he was too lazy to
fill out an absentee ballot.
Additionally, Hackney
said “No candidate really
sparked an interest for me.”
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