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California election could benefit Bush
With Schwarzenegger now
the governor of California,
Bush's chances at getting
re-elected may be greater
By Linda Goldston
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Can Arnold
Schwarzenegger help re-elect Presi
dent Bush next year?
It's still early and there are a lot of
ifs about the newly elected Republi
can governor, who won't assume of
fice for at least a month. But political
analysts said Wednesday that
Schwarzenegger's resounding defeat
of Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday creates
a lot of possibilities for Bush's cam
paign in 2004 in California — a state
he lost before.
He attracted votes from some key De
mocratic constituencies: women, mi
norities, union members, even liberals.
"Schwarzenegger's victory provides
a road map for the Bush re-election
campaign in California next year,"
said Republican political consultant
Dan Schnur, who advised business
man Peter Ueberroth before he with
drew from the recall race. "Their most
recent road map was almost a decade
old. Schwarzenegger's campaign now
gives them guidance. It shows them
who to talk to, where to go and what
to talk about."
Two of those key groups that
could play a role in the presidential
campaign in California are the "soc
cer moms and dads, who are eco
nomically successful but socially
moderate" and the "NASCAR dads,
who are more economically pop
ulist and socially conservative," said
Schnur, who was press secretary for
former Gov. Pete Wilson.
Bush's 2000 campaign spent a lot
of time and money in California but
lost the state by a big margin.
Schwarzenegger 'can help Bush
raise money, and he's trying to raise
$200 million," said Bruce Cain, a
University of California-Berkeley po
litical scientist on sabbatical at the
Brookings Institution.
"The really critical question is, are
there reverse coattails? Does the gov
ernor drag the president in his wake?
There isn't a lot of historical prece
dence for that. Too many things have
to happen for that to work.'
That includes Schwarzenegger be
ing successful in his first 100 days,
"and that remains to be seen,"
Cain said.
"He still has to come up with a
budget that has to be produced by
January, which is the beginning of the
presidential primaries, lie still has to
have a budget passed by June, and
that's before the general election."
Leon Panetta, former White
House budget director and chief of
staff to President Clinton, said
Schwarzenegger's victory might ac
tually hurt Bush.
He said Tuesday's "protest vote
should be of concern to every incum
bent, not only in the state but
throughout the country and the presi
dent, too."
The exit polls after people voted
showed "anger about the economy,
gridlock in Sacramento and anger
about the deficit," Panetta said. "If I
were George Bush, I'd be a little more
nervous today than 1 was yesterday."
(c) 2003, San Jose Mercury News (San
Jose, Calif.). Distributed by Knight
Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
DPS
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Candidates for the job are also
asked to sign a waiver allowing DPS
to do a background check on them.
Hicks said DPS conducts telephone
interviews with an applicant's family
members and previous employers,
runs a check on his or her credit his
tory and looks into the applicant's
criminal background.
"What we're trying to determine is
if the person is being honest and
truthful," Hicks said. "That's an im
portant characteristic in an officer."
The whole process usually winnows
the applicant pool down to one candi
date who is then hired on a one-year
probationary period. The potential of
ficer will not be commissioned until
he or she completes the DPS Standards
and Testing class at the Oregon Police
Academy and the DPS Field Training
and Evaluation Program.
Lt. Herb Homer said newly hired
officers need the trial employment
period because the standards and
testing class is only offered during the
summer. lire class is five weeks long
and teaches officers criminal law,
procedural law, report writing, how
to conduct an investigation and
many other skills.
"Most of the training they have is ex
actly like the police have," Homer said.
Horner said officers also leam de
fensive tactics such as "take downs"
and how to disable someone who is
armed with a knife; however, officers
are also taught to only use force as a
last resort. For example, Homer said
that when officers-in-training are
taught how to use pepper spray,
everyone is sprayed so they know
what it feels like and won't be over
zealous to use it in the field.
"We really do try through the hir
ing process to get the best people we
can," Homer said.
Training doesn't end after they fin
ish their five weeks at the academy, Lt.
Joan Saylor said. New officers must
still go through several months of on
the-job learning in the Field Training
and Evaluation Program.
Paired with a commissioned DPS
officer, new officers leam the ins and
DPS, which has faced
criticism lately
because of officer
misconduct over
the summer, has
stringent hiring
practices and
a yearlong
introductory period
for new officers.
Douglas Hopper
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outs of the University community in
addition to being inundated with law
enforcement-related information,
like how to handle a student who is
possibly intoxicated.
"It's really a difficult process for
folks," Saylor said.
Hicks said the majority of the cam
pus community do not realize how
hard DPS officers work and what a
demanding job it can be.
For example, Hicks said that for
every four people who survive train
ing and become a commissioned
DPS officer, at least one person usu
ally quits shortly afterward.
This can become an expensive
loss because it costs roughly $7,000
to equip and train each individual
officer. Hicks said DPS normally
has to hire new officers every year
and a 25 percent turnover rate is
pretty common in most law en
forcement agencies.
"We're always going to have
turnover," he said.
Contact the news editor
at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
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that all sororities are like that, she said.
"I know that we get a lot of ques
tions about that, since the show's
been on," she said.
Winkler said the University's alco
hol ban was not a factor in the decline
because, as far as she can remember,
sororities have always been dry.
Ava Hirschsohn, vice president of
social issues for the Panhellenic
Council and a member of Delta
Gamma sorority, said she thought
increasing the recruitment fee from
$20 to $30 hurt University sorori
ties. Also, fewer women may have
applied this year because the appli
cations were all online and more
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coming class has the highest average
GPA of any class admitted to the Uni
versity in recent memory. She said she
thinks that indicates many women are
focusing more on academics and less
on extracurricular activities.
Mary Sleasman, who is in charge
of recruitment for Kappa Kappa
Gamma, agreed that the $30 charge
was limiting the number of women
joining; however, it also may filter
out all but the devoted members.
"The pledge dasses that are coming
through right now are just amazing,
amazing girls," she said. "Next year, 1
think we're going to have a wonderful
recruitment because of them."
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