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07807 December 11, 2007
College news
by Evan Silverstein
Presbyterian News Service
DANVILLE, KY - Centre College won't host a 2008 presidential debate - most likely. The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the locations of next year's three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. Centre, which had applied for the honor, was not selected. However, it was selected along with Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC as an alternate site, should one of the chosen campuses be unable to host its event. Centre hosted the 2000 vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, which was watched by 28.5 million television viewers, according to the commission. The presidential debates will be at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, on Sept. 26; Belmont University in Nashville, TN, on Oct. 7; and Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, on Oct. 15. The vice presidential debate will be at Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 2.
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HASTINGS, NE - After orbiting Earth since June as flight engineer on the International Space Station, Hastings College graduate Clayton C. Anderson returned home aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Nov. 7. The NASA astronaut received a bachelor of science degree (Cum Laude) in physics from Hastings College in 1981 and a master of science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983. Anderson will visit Hastings College on March 2-3. A ceremony honoring him will be held in French Chapel on March 2 at 7:30 p.m. Anderson will visit classes on March 3. He spoke to Hastings College students live from the space station on Oct. 22 (Click here to watch the video).
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DAVIDSON, NC - Davidson College President Thomas W. Ross has received the President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Justice from the American Criminology Society (ACS). Ross became the 17th president of Davidson College in August after three decades of leadership and public service in North Carolina. He graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and taught at the university's School of Government. In 1984, North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt appointed Ross as a Superior Court Judge, a position he held for 17 years. The ACS is an international organization concerned with criminology, embracing scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the etiology, prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency.
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HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA - Republicans at Hampden-Sydney College hosted former United States Attorney General John D. Ashcroft on Nov. 7. Ashcroft held the position of Attorney General during the first term of President George W. Bush. Ashcroft had served as a United States senator and Missouri governor before he was appointed to lead the Justice Department in 2000. There was a tour of the college, a reception and dinner for Ashcroft and his wife before the former Attorney General presented a speech to a packed audience in Johns Auditorium.
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WOOSTER, OH - A delegation of students from Wooster College distinguished itself by making a number of persuasive arguments and winning three top awards at the recent American Model United Nations competition in Chicago. Seniors Maureen Hanlon and Ted Hickey, along with sophomores Aneeb Sharif, Marc Christian and Esther Chhakchhuak, led a group of 24 Wooster undergraduates who represented the countries of Iran and Portugal during the four-day event, which involved more than 1,400 students from 70 colleges and universities across the country. In Model United Nations competition, students are assigned a country and then presented with a particular problem or situation that they must address and resolve in the context of that government's structure. The framework provides students with an authentic simulation of the United Nations.
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