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October 14, 2004 Domestic issues stir up student debate viewers DebateWatch draws about 48 people at UW-Green Bay By Lee Reinsch Bill Curtis, 19, of Muskego, was among around 48 people who watched
the third and final debate between President Bush and Democratic challenger
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
The campus-community gathering was part of a nationwide voter-education
program of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Some 128 people showed up for the first DebateWatch event on Sept. 30.
The event featured the showing of the debate on a large projection screen
television in the student union, accompanied by snacks and coffee. Afterward,
students, led by faculty, discussed the issues.
Wednesday's debate touched on a number of domestic topics including
health care, Social Security, the role of faith in politics, homosexuality,
marriage and the minimum wage.
Curtis said Wednesday's debate offered a welcome reprieve from heavy
foreign-policy matters.
"I'd been getting sick of hearing about the war in Iraq," Curtis said.
"I'm glad they're talking about jobs and the economy."
Curtis left a half hour early because of homework.
Also leaving early to do homework was Sarah Corazalla, 19, a junior
who graduated from Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School.
'"The debate is getting to all of the issues, especially Social Security
and where will we get all the funding," Corazalla said. "I'm glad it's
now being addressed."
Corazalla and Curtis, both members of the College Republicans, said
President Bush did very well in the debate.
"He's giving the American people straight talk and talking directly
to the American people," Curtis said. "Kerry is talking fictitious policies
and promises."
Graduate student Larry Cornell saw things differently than his younger
peers.
"Kerry has a lot more useful and progresssive ideas and a better vision
for the kind of equality in the country that needs to happen for people
to feel satisfied," said Cornell, 34, who is studying environmental science.
"When Bush says that we have to enshrine marriage legally in our tax
code, it makes no sense. Marriage is a religious issue and should be left
to a person's own religious expression," Cornell, of Marinette, said.
"There shouldn't be rewards for being married and penalties for not
being married. He seems to be too concerned with his own morality. I like
what Kerry's saying on almost everything, which is weird because I voted
for Bush in the last election."
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