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The note lies on the counter, sur
rounded by carefully laid out cereal
bowls, lunch sacks, nametags, and
the spare pair of training pants.
“Don’t forget Tim takes a snack,
and please ask Carol if Daniel can
come on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
too.” In an attempt to keep my life
runningas smoothly as possible, I try
to have it in perfect order. It was
hectic before, and I fear total chaos
now.
At precisely 7:30, allowing mysell
enought time for parking, I leave.
Departing into the outer world, I
bequeath to my husband the task of
wrestling the boys into their clothes
and the challenge of getting them to
school on time with fewer than the
usual six million fights. I park,
leagues from campus, and try to find
my classroom. At last, I am settled
in, and on time! It is only after the
syllabus is passed out that I realize I
am in biology lab, not my j
nalism course.
I rush across campus in a fi
effort to find yet another buikM
don’t recognize at all, andsometal
locate the correct classroom. A> I
walk in, I hear the professor etl
phasize that journalists must learn L
meet deadlines and that tardim
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up then folds over and whichis.laj
convinced, fiendishly designed t
separate the newcomers from til
upperclassmen. Somehow mylWj
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Conditions
crowded
Editor:
Upon returning to Texas A&M
this fall, I was shocked by the
crowded conditions which exist
throughout College Station. Hordes
of people cram into the stores and
taverns, fight for space on the
sidewalks of campus, circle the park
ing lots waiting for a space much like
buzzards circling the kill, or park in
the lots of nearby (and not so nearby)
apartments, stores, and offices.
Students trek to classes at 6:00 and
7:00 at night and might soon be going
at those hours of the morning.
Classrooms are packed and instruc
tors comilain that they cannot suc
cessfully implement their planned
curriculum with so many students.
It doesn’t seem like a healthy
environment—physically, mentally
or academically. Are restrictions
currently being imposed on enroll
ment size? Can this University
adequately accommodate its pre
sent enrollment? For the sake of the
administration, the faculty, the
community and the students, I hope
so.
— Maureen Bucek
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WASHINGTON — As soon as
Jimmy Carter accepted President
Ford’s challenge to television de
bates, the fundamental character of
the 1976 presidential campaign was
altered. With Mr. Ford and his
Georgia challenger launching their
individual campaigns, it is possible
to weigh some of the effects of the
debates on the race.
The most important element, of
course, is unpredictable—the per
formance of the rival candidates.
There are various tantalizing clues:
Mr. Ford is verbally awkward, a man
with a penchant for the fractured
phrase. Carter is fluid, nimble, and
uses words with rare appreciation for
the shading of meanings.
On the other hand, the President
has often been at his best in a give-
and-take situation; the years of off-
the-cuff debating on the floor of the
House have prepared him lor that
kind of two-minute volley of views.
This reporter has never seen Mr.
Ford as awkward in a press confer
ence situation when being hard-
pressed as Carter sometimes was
during the primary months. On the
other hand, I have never heard from
Carter sentences that made you
wince, as Mr. Ford can easily de-
liver.
Leaving such speculations aside,
there are three points about the im
pact of the impending debates that
lead me to conclude that, on ba
lance, the decision to debate re
dounds in Mr. Ford’s favor.
First, the early public knowledge
that there will be debates effectively
reduces the length of the campaign.
While both candidates have taken
the stump already, the campaign will
begin in the public consciousness on
the evening of the first debate—on
Sept. 23—and not before.
The audience for that debate will
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be so huge, compared to any audi
ence the candidates can attract on
their own, that the preliminary cam
paigning can serve as no more than a
warmup for that event.
Barring egregious error on Car
ter’s or Mr. Ford’s part, there will be
little movement in the polls until the
first debate. The time from now until
that debate will be rehearsal time, a
chance to test arguments and
applause lines in relative privacy.
The effective shortening oi the
campaign period should work to Mr.
Ford’s advantage in two respects. It
minimizes one of Carter s early ad
vantages over him—the five-week
lead time resulting from the Democ
rat’s July convention date. By the
time the campaign really starts, with
that first debate, the Republicans
should he able to catch up with the
Democrats in organizational and
candidate readiness.
Also, Mr. Ford can be “presiden
tial” in this pre-debate period, using
the White House as his campaign
stage and separating himself
psychologically from the "political
Carter, who will be seen in the tradi
tional poses of the aspiring politi
cian.
That contrast between the pur
poseful President and the
barnstorming pretender to the office
is one that Mr. Ford would like to fix
in the public mind as a preliminary
to the first debate.
The second inherent advantage in
debates for the President, I believe,
is this: They absolutely determine
that the public perception of the
presidential contest will be a battle
between two individuals and not be
tween the nominees of opposing
political parties.
That perception fits the Ford
campaign strategy, not the Carter
strategy. Carter’s own polls show the
public attitude toward the Democra
tic party is far more approving than
the public view of the GOP. That s
one reason he begins his official
campaign with a visit to the Warm
Springs home of the Democratic pat-
deli’
thro
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unbf
ron saint Franklin Delai
Roosevelt.
If the public voted on thebasi)i|
party preferences, Mr. Fordshoj*
would be finished. If they volet?
their perception of the strengthsarl
weaknesses of two individuals, lf|
may still come off second best, t
he has a chance.
There is one possible compensal
ing advantage for Carter and lk| on ‘ c
Democrats, aside from the speolal cam
tive possibility that Carter mayjil
show up the President in thatm®
to-man competition.
That advantage would occur
1976 debates, like those in
have the effect of galvanizing pul
interest in the election itself. Vote
apathy is a huge problem forth
Democrats in any election,
their hard-core voters—the pon
the less-educated, the young, I
minorities—are likely to be dif
outs. Apathy is particularly a pi
lem for Carter, who learned in
primaries that his supporters®
prone to stay home if the weatkii
adverse or the contest unexciting
No one who covered the
campaign will ever forget the jnni;
in the size and excitement of th
crowds after the first Kenned
Nixon debate. Some Democrat
politicians think public alien
from the political process is so u
this year that the debates willful 1
stir a comparable reaction.
Rut if the pessimists are wrong
and the public does get “turnedm
to the election by the spectacle of fe
debates, the increased turnout«
in all likelihood redound to '
Democrats’ advantage.
If the 1960 pattern holds, the
debate will have the largest ailin'
ence. Carter won an importantt#
cession from Mr. Ford whenfe
President accepted domestic poll'
and the economy as the subjectW 1
ter of the first debate.
Those are Carter’s issues, just)
much as foreign policy
defense—subjects of the sec*
debate—are Mr. Ford’s strongsai
Kennedy won a similar concessi®
from Nixon in 1960—and history'®
made. That is as much of a
sheet on the debates as this repoiW
can strike in advance. Like everyoK
else, I am intrigued to see howtle'
will turn out.
(c) 1976, The Washington Post
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