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Dole ahead in early polls, cautious about results MANC'HKSTKR. N H (AP) Hob Dole has bi'tm ahead in the New Hampshire opinion polls before, only to *<•«* his pres idential dreams shattered by the likes of Victoria Zachoa and David C jtmev So don't blame Dole for not taking much stix k in early polls, ext opt to joke he wishes New Hampshire's primary were today instead of a year from now Or for making sure Zachos and Carney are on his side this time around. The Senate majority leader and front runner for the GOP presidential nomina tion made his campaign debut this week end with a circuit of town hall meetings a< ross New Hampshire, including four on Monday, Along the way. he server! notice that he would not be outworked here in 1996. ns ho was in 1‘IHH by then-Vico President George Bush And he said he planned to refrain, at least for now. from getting drawn into n daily war of words with Texas Son. Phil Gramm or other rivals, preferring instead the kinder, gentler demeanor of a confi dent front runner Dole * cushion thre*- weekend poll* showed him with i it) percentage point lead here — is unlikely to lie so comfort able after his rivals have had more time to introduce themselves and the c anipnign becomes serious But a* Dole launched his third White House bid he said it had a “much better feel” than the last one. It certainly i* easier to bring people into the organization now," the Kansas senator said in an interview throughout hi* Senate career. Dole has earned reputation as a loyal soldier to Republican presidents and a shrewd leg tslative toi ttcian But. as was the case in 10HH, critics and even some supporters question whether he has what Bush used to call "the vision thing," a compelling message that captures the imagination of voters Dole is hoping that when comparisons are made with President Clinton, or his less-experienced COP rtvalx, he will win voter loyalty for a simpler reason I want to be your president for the right reason Ins ause 1 tan provide the leadership America needs now and into the nest i enters " Dole said at a Now Hampshire HOP dinner Sunday night He is also banking on the loyalty of (iC)i’ pri mary voters, including many who opposed him in years past. "I've been tested." Dole said "I've pro vided leadership I am not a lone ranger I am in every battle for this party and have been a consistent leader." So far. it's an appeal that is winning Dole important early converts Carney, for example, helped orches trate Rush's I'lHH win here hut is now a senior Dole adviser and urging fellow Hush loyalists like Zac.hos to join him He has been there for us back to Nison," Z.achos said of Dole I really think he has earned it Dole's three day foray here vs as designed to "freeze that early support that is out there and get these folks involved and invested in the effort." said William 1 .v. Dole deputy campaign chairman It was on the night of his l'lHH New Hampshire loss that Dole told a TV Inter viewer he had this canstu message for Hush ''Toll him to stop lying about my ret ard " Hush went on to t rush Dole in the southern primaries t his time. Dole sav* he will choose his words more carefully Still, it appears met itahle that he and Gramm are headed for a few i onfrontntions Gramm is fond, for example, of noting that he opposed tile 1900 budget deal anti its tax mt reason, a pat knge Dole support ed after helping the Hush administration negotiate it with congressional Demos rats Gramm was part of the budget nego tiating team, hut voted against the final product. He insisted that he he invited and he||ted make the tits isions up to the end. and then he jumped overboard." Dole said of Gramm "Maybe that is the wav to get ahead Artist improves image of shacks NOR mAMPTON. Mass (AP) - To travelers on the highways of the New South, the wooden sharks of the farm country vanish in a blur, sagging rem nants of an uncomfortable past Hut Beverly Buchanan stopped to look And look Like Monet fixating on the Rouen cat hod ral. she has photographed, sculpted and painted the home made shat ks of the rural South tor more than two decades. In the end. she has transformed eyesore into art and lifted the ramshat klo lives of shat k dwellers into the halls of high culture “A lot of people might wonder why you want to pay attention to that, and I must admit I came to it gradually," said Buchanan in an interview from her home in Athens, (la. "I was interested in the kinds of structures that were left when people had their hands on them." Her exhibition. "ShuckWorks." is now visiting art museums on a two-year tour to communities as diverse as New York City and LaGrange, G« It is showing until April l(i in the Smith College Art Museum in Northampton, m the heart of Yankee country. "Her works serve as visual metaphors for the poverty, struggles and ingenuity of a culture that is commonly held in disregard and contempt," said Trinket! Clark, curator of the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va Horn in Fuquay. N.C. . Buchanan grew up on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orange burg, where her father was dean of the School of Agriculture. While traveling around the country side with him, Buchanan encountered many shanties built from materials at hand and often inhabited by him k tenant fanner* or migrant latxir ers A former public health educator in Hast Orange, N I . sin* balked at an at c uptanca to medical school in her late 4()s and det ided to devote herself to art She initially concentrated on stone sculptures and abstract expressionist images Though the shacks of her childhood came increasingly to the fore in her imagination, she was nl first surprised by the social significance attributed to them. "I was just doing this I wanted to see walls, and I wanted to see structures." said Buchanan A heavyset ri4-year old w ith a self deprec ating manner and flair for storytelling. Buchanan lives far from the glitter of the art world "My philosophy is that wo all live in shat ks," she said. "I've had to put a roof on this house Two windows were blown out from a storm ,1 c ouple of weeks ago. so I've had to replai e them Buchanan has exhibited her works widely Her pieces art> owned by several well known museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Carnegie Museum of Art in fills burgh. I he i enterpits « of "Shack Works” is "Shat k South Inside Out " ft is a tilting, almost life size shack replica fashioned from nailed pine Ixuirds and tin, surrounded tiy pits es of furniture that would ordi narily he found inside such a home Charac lens tically, she has painted an abstract fruit bowl, in a w ink to the world of high art, on an inner wall Mary I.ou Furcron. a friend of Buchanan, sits on the stoop of her log cabin in a 4-foot high col or photograph included in the exhibit Students lack knowledge about presidents LOS ANCLI.KN (AIM As the tuition celebrated Presidents' Day on Monday, a sampling of students at schools named after former commanders-in-chief showed White House history doesn't pack much punch "You mean Cleveland High was named after a former presi dent asked Mildred Monroy. a junior at Grover Cleveland High School "1 always thought it was named after that city in Canada." GRAND OPENING FREE STAY-N-PLAY Choose from the widest selection of video games on oil systems. For 4 Um<ed Time Oniy Must praiaa* student LD. (Ima 1/3 hour per student) 886 E. 13th (Aciou trom It*- U ot 0 B.xiiUrxr ) "John Adams? He's dead That's all I know," said 14-year old Nit/.rio Carillo. o student at John Adams Middle School )ames Monroe High School teacher Caryn Cornell offered to let students in her detention ( lass out early if they could tell her who Monroe was “Fifteen kills and nobody knew Nobody. Their mouths all just dropped open like 'Dub,'" Cornell said "It’s not funny, it's sad. In this classroom, we have [ii! tures of every l! S, president hanging on the wall Fair’s fair, though, and even tear hers admit they don't know alt they should "james Monroe may In* the namesake of our school, hut he wasn't exac tly among our most distinguished presidents," assis tant principal Alice Parrish said "If someone asked me, I could maybe mention the Monroe Doc trine and not much else, and I’m a history teac her " Race and Intelligence A panel discussion exploring the scientific effort to link class and social status to heredity Ben Linder Room («rw door tMU) 5:30pm Wednesday, February 22,19*5 sponsored by The African Students Association Panel guests include: Professor Marvin Gordon-Lickey. Psychology Professor Kenneth Liberman Sociology Professor Linda fufler. Sociology Candidates: affirmative action not creating equal opportunity v\ AS uv «TON (AP) I brae Republlt an preaidential! i < > j >. • fuls are milking affirmative action an early < ampaign issue, mis mg they want to end such programs .is they now exist It 1 txs unit' president, bv is.-, uimt order i will ov erturn quo tas, p referent os and Mil asides." conservative Son I'hil Cramm, K Ti'xas said Sunday In ease lie doesn't 111.ike it," Senate Maturity leader Hot) Dole. K Kan . said in reference to Cramtn, I'd lie happy to help in that effort I think we need a color-blind society ” Dole is cur rently in the lead among early presidential contenders With a year to go !*>fore the primary season, affirmative action already looms .is an issue that could dominate the 1‘t‘lti < am paign In California, a referendum is planned for next year that would eliminate quotas for contrai ts or government benefits The Clinton administration says affirmative m lion is still needed to reverse pant racial and sex based disi rimmation Ihe vestiges of racism are still here. and it's being exploit ed Rep Charles Rangel. U N V . said on NBC's .YfeW ffic Rrwvs He said Republican attai ks on affirmative ac lion are an attempt "to s< apegoat minorities, immigrants and poor folks " One Republican who det tde<l not to run for president, for mer Housing and Urban Development Sei retary Jack Kemp, agreed on NHt that Repuhlti ans i an't use affirmative action as a wedge issue and still try to reach out to all Amerit ans "We've not made enough progress, " Kemp said, emphasi/ ing that affirmative action should lx* fiased on ecotiome need rather than rut « " There are people in our community, in our country, in our family, who need spin ial help " But those still tit the race stressed that help should not c ome at the price of equal opportunity Tin for equal and unlimited opportunity in America, but Tin for spin tal privilege for no one,'" (inunin said on (IBS' Facv thr Saturn Crainm plans to formally announce his < andidai y on Friday ^tPizza Pipeline ffj Hot Winjs, Tricky Stix and Salad for $9 each! 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