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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Debating the Issues: Ann Coulter v. Lawrence O' Donnell
On Sunday night in Lisner Auditorium, conservative pundit Ann Coulter faced off against liberal MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell in a debate.
O'Donnell focused more on Rush saying that, "It is about contraception for Rush Limbaugh. That’s all he’s talking about. And Rush Limbaugh has decided a college student or in the case he was talking about a law school student — if that law school student wants and uses contraception and advocates for others, she is a prostitute. She is a slut. That is what the Limbaugh position is.”
Even before either Coulter or O' Donnell took the stage, the people who were introducing them were jockeying for position such as mentioning that Coulter is "the New York Times bestselling author of eight different books" and that " O'Donnell is "donating his speaking fee to an organization that helps provide school desks for children in Guatemala."
The first hot button issue that was brought up was the current controversy surround Rush Limbaugh's criticism of Sandra Fluke in which he called her a slut and a prostitute. The moderator, Frank Sesno, couldn't even finish his sentence before being drowned out by the booing audience. The debate opening focused more on contraceptives than the controversy.
When asked for her opinion on the matter Coulter said "What I don't like about this and also what has annoyed me about a lot of the republican responses about the HHS mandate is that it is completely missing the point by making it a debate about contraception, which by the way why they really come to life when your talking about it. And about religious freedom, which isn't the issue here." She went on to say that it is not insurance.
“Insurance is to cover unexpected emergencies — fires, car crashes and dreaded diseases,” Coulter continued. “If we’re covering something that costs between $10 and at most $30 a month, well then what can’t be ruled on by the HHS secretary? This is them taking our freedom away — the government taking our freedom away. I think the next mandate if Obama is reelected is going to be that you will have to pay a higher insurance premium if you own a gun in your home.”
O' Donnell responded that "I wish that the government was not to require any insurance companies to do anything in the health care field area because I wish that the government would bypass the insurance companies completely."
When Coulter was further questioned about the Limbaugh controversy, she state that, “this red-herring, when liberals all get ginned up about some talk radio host who is very popular, I don’t know why Republicans, particularly elected Republicans are responding at all.” She further elaborated by questioning why other prominent individuals don't have to answer for their verbal gaffes.“Why doesn’t Obama have to respond to the things that his million-dollar donor Bill Maher has said, calling Sarah Palin the ‘c-word,’ for example. Why doesn’t my friend Lawrence have to respond his MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz calling Laura Ingraham a slut? Or Rachel Maddow accusing the good people of Kentucky of murders of the census worker?”
O' Donnell truly won an advantage over Coulter when he brought up a quote from 2003 in which Coulter says "It’s true. It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in 64 –would have won, if only the men had voted." She was asked this by the British newspaper, The Guardian.
The fact that this followed Coulter mentioning that people shouldn't be able to vote until they can afford health insurance- at age 26- didn't go over that well with the audience-mostly college students under 26. She effectively said that the majority of people listening should not be able to vote in the next presidential election. These statements elicited the loudest boos of the night and many members of the audience seem genuinely stunned at her comments.
Ann Coulter and Lawrence O' Donnell put on quite the show for GW students and shortly after wrapped up the debate. Mr. O' Donnell took some time to answer some question posed by WRGW's own New Director, Joey Rabinowitz. The interview can be found on our blog. And both Coulter and O' Donnell took some time to meet with students from the College Democrats and Republicans afterwords and answer questions and pose for pictures.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Student Keystone Pipeline Debate
On Tuesday, February 7, in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom the College Democrats and the College Republicans hosted a student debate on the Obama Administration's stance on the Keystone pipeline debate.
The Democrats slightly outnumbered the Republicans, but from the intensity of the debate, you wouldn't know it otherwise. The Democrat debaters each read an opening statement about why they opposed the Keystone pipeline-among which dealt with environmental impact and the fact the the jobs that it would create would only two thousand temporary jobs. The Republicans quickly countered with an estimate that the jobs wouldn't be temporary and would be numbered as many quarter million. Each cited different reliable sources.
However, once the debate quickly began to ignite with the Republicans going on the offensive. They began a very cohesive offensive on Keystone Pipeline and criticized the Obama administration. With one of the debaters referring to the President as "Your President" towards the College Democrats, with which one of democrats "He is your president too." This elicited a round of cheers from the College Democrat members present.
The College Republicans continuously assailed the Democrats bringing up the the Alberta Clipper Pipeline. This is a oil-sands pipeline that Obama previously approved in 2009. They stated that it was similar and that the only reason that Obama refused Keystone Pipeline was because it was in key swing states. The way it came was if the College Democrats hadn't heard of the Pipeline, but it may have had something to do with the fact that they had such little response time.
The College Democrats were calm, cool, and collected. They had asked the other side for a moment to respond, but they weren't readily granted it. The result was that they barely were able to successfully defend their views, much less counter what the Republican debaters were bringing up. The Republicans dominated the speaking time- command a significant about more time than them democrats themselves received.
The arguments and statements began to get slightly out of hand during an attack on Obama's decision with one of he Republicans stating "Now I understand why Obama went to Disney world, he's in fantasy land." The Republican side all cheered, but you could feel the silent shock on the Democrats side that such a brazen attack. Members of the Democrat audience even got involved when one of their debaters tried to respond to a comment the Republicans had just made, just to be spoken over. They wanted the debater to be able to speak and the Republican who had just interrupted told the audience members to let him finish.
It continued to get out of hand when the moderator attempt to stop the debate in order to ask a question. One of the Republican's continued to speak and interrupted him multiple times. The moderator stated when he was able to speak "now just let me interrupt this crazy circus."
The Republican displayed a significant amount of passion and knowledge about the subject and thus made a lasting impression. However, sometimes the interruptions and the passionate comments began to hurt there argument. It hurt their credibility. You could tell that they are both incredible intelligent, but there is a certain point where the passion begins to be mistaken for emotion. And if you speak on emotion, rather than facts. The argument is already lost. They just need to reign it in a bit.
The College Democrats had almost the opposite problem- if it is possible they came across as almost to respectful. They let the republicans speak when they asked, but were not rewarded with the same privilege. The Democrats really earned a significant amount of credibility, just from how they acted. However, you could feel that they might not have been able to make their whole argument in the limited time they had to speak. This is one case where they should have spoken up a lot more. They made valid points, but if debate team has half the time, then they won't be able to make an effective argument.
Both sides made this debate feel like the real thing- meaning it felt like they are elected officials off of a CNN debate. And most importantly, both sides made good points and displayed the best of there respective organization. It was an impressive debate.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Students Pitch Business Ideas in an Elevator
A bright idea, two thousand dollars and an elevator. These are the integral parts that made up the fourth annual Pitch George Competition this Saturday. The competition was open to all graduate, undergraduate and even high school students.
The competitors started the primary portion of the competition by pitching their business idea to a room filled with judges and fellow competitors. They had to support their idea with market statistics and demonstrate a legitimate demand or use for their product or service. After they had finished, the competitors received some constructive criticism from the judges.
The event also served as a networking luncheon, giving competitors the chance to exchange business cards with the judges and fellow contestants.
The final round featured five contestants pitching their plans in an elevator which included a three-minute pitch in an elevator.
Prizes for the top three places were awarded in each age division. College students received $2,000 for first place, $1,500 for second and $1,000 for third. High school winners received $750, $500 and $250 respectively.
In addition, all of the finalists received prizes such as legal assistance setting up their businesses.
Pitch George is just the first major competition of the year. In January GW will hold their Business Plan competition with more than $50,000 in prizes up for grabs. For more information on the competition or if you're interested in entrepreneurship visit GW's Office of Entrepreneurship.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Youngest Congressman Shares His Story
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| Aaron Schock is the youngest serving Congressman. |
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) spoke to a group on GW students Tuesday at a College Republicans and Young America's Foundation cosponsored event. Schock, 30, told the Marvin Center crowd about his journey to becoming the youngest serving U.S. Congressmen.
"It's great to be back on a college campus," Schock said. "Most of the days I get to spend with people that are three times my age, so it's kind of fun to come back to a place, where people kind of look my age."
He then launched into a brief version of his impressive rise to Congress. Schock got off to an ambitious start at an incredibly young age working by forming his own company, working with DOS formatting software and doing database management, at a book store chain. The impressive part was, Schock was only in the fifth grade.
Many other impressive accomplishments followed, including working a ticket-brokering job that would net him nearly $18,000 annually when he reached seventh grade, and began investing the money that he earned with an online trading account. He was relatively successful until the tech bubble burst and his portfolio bottomed out.
Schock got his first taste of politics when he attempted to graduate a year early from high school and was held back by the school board. Schock earned all of his high school credits by the end of his junior year and attempted to go off to college a year early. Shock said the school board prevented his early departure because of the state money the district would receive for his school attendance.
When he realized it was about the money, Schock said he showed up at the next school board meeting with a personal check for $8,400 written out to the school system, the exact amount of the school's state aid. The board turned him down and forced Schock to take gym for his senior year for a single credit hour.
Schock got his first taste of politics when he attempted to graduate a year early from high school and was held back by the school board. Schock earned all of his high school credits by the end of his junior year and attempted to go off to college a year early. Shock said the school board prevented his early departure because of the state money the district would receive for his school attendance.
When he realized it was about the money, Schock said he showed up at the next school board meeting with a personal check for $8,400 written out to the school system, the exact amount of the school's state aid. The board turned him down and forced Schock to take gym for his senior year for a single credit hour.
He wanted to change the rules. Schock decided to jump in the race against the previously unopposed Peoria school board president. He managed to collect the necessary number of petition signatures, but the school board member hired an attorney and challenged his petition. Some of the signees simply wrote ditto marks and not a full signature, and the court decided this invalidated Schock's petition.
Determined to win, Schock still ran as a write-in candidate. He defeated the incumbent president, and three years later, Schock became the youngest Illinois school board president at the age of 23.
Determined to win, Schock still ran as a write-in candidate. He defeated the incumbent president, and three years later, Schock became the youngest Illinois school board president at the age of 23.
He later followed up his early election victory by successfully running for a position in the Illinois House of Representatives in 2005. He served for four years, quickly moving up the ranks in the Democratic state legislature.
Schock joined Congress in 2009 at the age of 28. Two years later, he was reelected with nearly 70% of the votes.
Schock joined Congress in 2009 at the age of 28. Two years later, he was reelected with nearly 70% of the votes.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Caroline Kennedy Talks Jackie
A quiet rumble began to fill Lisner Auditorium on Monday night as people began to arrive almost an hour in advance to hear the main event, "A Conversation with Caroline Kennedy," presented by the Politics and Prose bookstore in conjunction with GW. Mrs. Kennedy visited GW, her mother's alma mater, to discuss the newly released, nearly eight-and-a-half hour recordings of her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy, and the accompanying book for which she wrote a foreword.
Caroline noted that her father's presidency is quickly "becoming a part of history rather than living memory" but that his ideals and words remain "as vital as ever." Returning to her mother, Caroline said that once Jacqueline finished the seven interviews, she "sealed the audio tapes in the Kennedy library and put the transcripts in a safety deposit vault in New York." Apart from Caroline and her brother John, few people knew of the tapes existence.
Michael Beschloss, a historian who specializes in presidential history, started the discussion and talked about Jacqueline's uninhibited interview with Arthur Schlesinger and her interest in historic preservation. Schlesinger, a historian and special assistant to President Kennedy, decided after his assassination that it was important to capture history on tape.
Schlesinger began the extensive process of interviewing nearly a thousand people who knew Mr. Kennedy in an attempt to create an oral history of the Kennedy administration. The centerpiece of this project was of course, Jacqueline Kennedy herself. Caroline kept the interviews sealed for decades until she decided they were fit to be released. This year was right time, she decided, as it is the 50th anniversary of her father's inauguration.
Caroline noted that her father's presidency is quickly "becoming a part of history rather than living memory" but that his ideals and words remain "as vital as ever." Returning to her mother, Caroline said that once Jacqueline finished the seven interviews, she "sealed the audio tapes in the Kennedy library and put the transcripts in a safety deposit vault in New York." Apart from Caroline and her brother John, few people knew of the tapes existence.
Caroline said she worried that listening to her mother's interviews would be upsetting. When she did listen to the tapes, she was surprised by "how much they revealed that wasn't on the page." She could tell when her mother was getting tired, annoyed, or when she decided not to talk about something.
In response to some of the criticisms that the tapes drew, Caroline stated that her mother broke the mold by giving such a candid interview.
Caroline's most difficult decision was whether to edit the interviews. She claimed some issues haven't withstood the test of time, some comments might have been embarrassing to her mother and she would no longer support some of her views. Caroline came to the conclusion that she didn't have the right to alter the historical record.
Caroline's most difficult decision was whether to edit the interviews. She claimed some issues haven't withstood the test of time, some comments might have been embarrassing to her mother and she would no longer support some of her views. Caroline came to the conclusion that she didn't have the right to alter the historical record.
Caroline stayed afterwards to sign copies of the book, Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
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