(Oh, this could be fun. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
Not doing anything next Tuesday?
On Tuesday, 23 September 2008, at 8:00 p.m. (20:00) the student government association of Huston-Tillotson University, along with the NAACP and Greek organizations, is sponsoring an election debate. The two debaters will be Dr. Fred L. McGhee, the president of Black Austin Democrats, and David Beckwith of the John Cornyn campaign and a veteran Republican activist surely familiar to BOR readers.
Huston-Tillotson University is a Historically Black College located in East Austin, and is the oldest university to be founded in the City of Austin. It has a rich tradition of community service & outreach in the East Austin community, and this pivotal election cycle marks a unique opportunity to push voter registration on campus and to educate the community about the issues.
The event will take place on September 23rd, on campus in the Student Union starting at 8PM and lasting 60-minutes. The format will be as close to the televised debates as possible except that all all topics (domestic, international, and some local) will be touched on. Questions from the audience will be taken, that will be chosen by the hosts for appropriateness.
The Format- The debate is divided into 5 ten-minute issue segments with 5 minutes each for closing remarks. The issues segments will be:
Domestic policy
Environmental policy
Foreign policy
Iraq
Local issues
The moderator will introduce each segment with an issue on which each candidate will comment, after which the moderator will facilitate further discussion of the issue, including direct exchange between the candidates, for the balance of that segment. Time will be reserved for closing statements by each of the candidates in each debate.
This is aimed at increasing the educational value of the general election debates, and to promote voter education.
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