2008 Woodie Awards
Decision 2008: Why Should you care?
Jaclyn Golia
Issue date: 1/31/08 Section: News
Jan. 20, 2009, is the next Inauguration Day. That is the day the next President of the United States will be sworn into office. That is the day that the male, or, for the first time in United States history, female, that we voted for will begin their journey over the next four years as the leader of our country.
With a little under a year left to go before we see a moving van on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the news teams and media crews are covering these candidates from every angel. Between newspapers, commercials, press conferences, debates, someone with a tape recorder will be there. With that we see each has their own campaigning techniques, styles and strategies. We can see what they are like, how they handle pressure, stress and scrutiny by the public eye.
From what Sacred Heart students know about our current contenders I asked them about what issues they care the most about. Both conservatives and liberals alike their feelings on the issues were the same.
Every student cares about the war in Iraq.
"The money we're spending on the war is detrimental to our economy. We could be doing better things with those billions of dollars," said sophomore Chelsea Patterson.
Sophomore Dan Repetti brought up our troops.
"I want to know what they're going to do in the future with our men and women," he said.
In regards to abortion sophomore Melissa Stul said, "I think that as a woman we should have the right to choose."
Sophomore Nick Capocchia, with a male perspective, said that "I believe women have a right to choose even though I don't personally believe in it."
Although their answers are similar, what divides up the student body is how they want their questions answered and who they want to answer them. The majority of responses I received was their choice for the Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani, and for the Democratic candidate Barak Obama.
But when I asked why should we care? I received one of two responses.
With a little under a year left to go before we see a moving van on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the news teams and media crews are covering these candidates from every angel. Between newspapers, commercials, press conferences, debates, someone with a tape recorder will be there. With that we see each has their own campaigning techniques, styles and strategies. We can see what they are like, how they handle pressure, stress and scrutiny by the public eye.
From what Sacred Heart students know about our current contenders I asked them about what issues they care the most about. Both conservatives and liberals alike their feelings on the issues were the same.
Every student cares about the war in Iraq.
"The money we're spending on the war is detrimental to our economy. We could be doing better things with those billions of dollars," said sophomore Chelsea Patterson.
Sophomore Dan Repetti brought up our troops.
"I want to know what they're going to do in the future with our men and women," he said.
In regards to abortion sophomore Melissa Stul said, "I think that as a woman we should have the right to choose."
Sophomore Nick Capocchia, with a male perspective, said that "I believe women have a right to choose even though I don't personally believe in it."
Although their answers are similar, what divides up the student body is how they want their questions answered and who they want to answer them. The majority of responses I received was their choice for the Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani, and for the Democratic candidate Barak Obama.
But when I asked why should we care? I received one of two responses.
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