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Edwards speaks out for Kerry
The vice-presidential
candidate touts Kerry's
vision and military service
TOM RAUM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOSTON — John Edwards,
the upbeat Southern populist on
John Kerry's ticket, accused Republi
cans on Wednesday of trying to
"take this campaign for the highest
office in the land down the lowest
possible road."
In a speech to convention dele
gates poised to make him their vice
presidential nominee, the North Car
olina senator asked Americans to "re
ject the tired, old, hateful, negative
politics of the past" and embrace a
Democratic team he said was full of
promise and possibilities.
"We choose hope over despair,
possibilities over problems, opti
mism over cynicism," Edwards said
in a text prepared for his address.
"What John Kerry and 1 believe is
that you should never look down on
anybody, that we should lift people
up. We don't believe in tearing peo
ple apart. We believe in bringing
people together. What we believe —
what I believe — is that the family
you're born into and the color of
your skin in our America should nev
er control your destiny."
Edwards revived the "two Americ
as" theme he used in his failed
presidential bid, saying the privileged
have access to good schools, health
care options and economic opportu
nities that others don't.
"It doesn't have to be that way,"
he said.
Edwards outlined Kerry's tax,
health care and education policies
before promising a Democratic ticket
that will protect America. With the
third anniversary of the Sept. 11 at
tacks approaching, he said, "We will
do whatever it takes, for as long as it
takes, to make sure that never hap
pens again, not in our America."
A former rival of Kerry's who
fashioned a sunny, optimistic mes
sage during the primary fight, Ed
wards made no mention of Presi
dent Bush or Vice President Dick
Cheney in his address.
But, in advance excerpts, he made
no secret of his differences with the
Republican ticket, and sought
to bolster Kerry against criticism that
he's not ready to be commander
in chief.
Following in the steps of a parade
of speakers before him, Edwards
pointed to Kerry's valorous service in
the Vietnam War more than 30 years
ago as evidence of the candidate's fit
ness to serve in the White House.
Earlier Wednesday, Kerry arrived to
the convention city aboard a water
taxi with crewmates from his Viet
nam swiftboat.
Those crewmates "saw up close
what he's made of," Edwards said.
"They saw him reach down and pull
one of his men from the river and
save his life. And in the heat of bat
tle, they saw him decide in an in
stant to turn his boat around, drive
it straight through an enemy posi
tion and chase down the enemy to
save his crew."
"Decisive. Strong," Edwards said.
"Aren't these the traits you want in a
commander in chief?"
The many injured U.S. soldiers in
Iraq "deserve a president who under
stands on the most personal level
what they have gone through," Ed
wards said. Kerry won three Purple
Hearts in combat.
Edwards was being introduced by
his wife, Elizabeth, who said in a text
of her address: "We deserve leaders
who allow their faith and moral core,
our faiths and moral core, to draw us
closer together, not drive us farther
apart. We deserve leaders who be
lieve in each of us."
MAJORS
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program was easier to handle admin
istratively. The program has proved
popular, prompting officials to
spin it off as an independent major,
Bayless said.
Bayless said the primary differ
ence students will see immediately
is that their transcripts will show
their major as "medieval studies"
rather than "humanities with a em
phasis on medieval studies." Bayless
said this is important, because the
former designation led to of
confusion from graduate schools
and possible employers.
An independent Medieval Studies
Program will also have a higher
national profile than the previous
designation, which will likely attract
more students from a wider
variety of places, Bayless said. This
will attract better faculty, which
will attract more funding, which
will allow the University to build
"It's really great for those
people who want to follow
that course of study."
— Suzanne Wise
Sophomore, anthropology
an even better program, she added.
Nicols said that at present, me
dieval studies majors fall into one of
two groups. Some are straight human
ities majors with an emphasis in me
dieval studies, but many are double
majors, often in English or history.
"It's pretty typical for humanities
students to double-major," said
Nicols.
Medieval studies majors study
many aspects of history and culture
from the period 500 to 1500 A.D. Fo
cuses include literature, art history, re
ligion and music.
Bayless said the University's pro
gram is unusual in that students are
not restricted to the study of Europe.
Students can also take classes on
medieval China and Japan, as well as
other cultures.
Sophomore anthropology major
Suzanne Wise said she is happy to
see medieval studies become its own
major. Wise also said the program
will be a boon to students not ma
joring in medieval studies, because
it will provide the opportunity to
take a broader range of history and
culture classes.
"It's really great for those people
who want to follow that course of
study," she said.
At present, there are no plans for
a doctoral program for medieval
studies, but the University does offer
a "Structured Emphasis in the Me
dieval Period" doctoral program
through the English department that
has attracted many students, Bayless
said. Students can also earn an inter
disciplinary master of artsin the me
dieval periods.
"We offer quite a lot of options af
ter the B.A.," Bayless said.
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