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."
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"John Adams? He's dead
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)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
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