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Senate candidates will debate at CU Oct. 19; other events this week

The incumbent U.S. senator from New York, Democrat Charles E. Schumer, will debate his Republican challenger Howard Mills and Conservative Party candidate Dr. Marilyn F. O'Grady Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. on campus.

The location of the debate, which is co-sponsored by the Cornell Mock Election 2004 student group and the League of Women Voters of New York State, is being announced this week, as is the policy for obtaining free tickets.

Schumer has been in the Senate since 1998, after previously serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1980. Mills has served as a New York state assemblyman from Orange County (District 97); prior to that, he was the town supervisor of Wallkill, N.Y., for four years. O'Grady has been an ophthalmic surgeon on Long Island for 16 years and is on the staff of Winthrop University Hospital, Long Island SurgiCenter.

The debate will be broadcast live on Time Warner Cable television systems.

Other Mock Election-sponsored events on campus in the coming week:

  • Oct. 14: A lecture on "The Nader Factor" by Peter Knight, author of Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, at 5 p.m. in Uris Hall Auditorium.

  • Oct. 15: An "Outsourcing Debate" featuring AFL-CIO Secretary/Treasurer Richard Trumka and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, at 11 a.m. in 305 Ives Hall.

  • Oct. 18: Lecture by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on "Victories Won, Challenges Ahead, Gay Rights in the U.S. and Israel," at 5 p.m. in Uris Hall Auditorium.

  • Oct. 19: Bruce Jentleson, professor of polical science and director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, and Jeremy Rabkin, professor of government at Cornell, will have a foreign policy debate at 5 p.m. in 165 McGraw Hall.

  • Oct. 20: Book signing and debate, "Throwdown: A Debate on the President," featuring Bill Press, a political analyst on MSNBC, and the Washington Post's Ronald Kessler. They will sign their books at the Cornell Store at 12:30 p.m., and the debate is at 7 p.m. in 305 Ives.

  • Oct. 21: "The Politics of National Security," a lecture by Sandy Berger '67, President Clinton's former national security adviser, at 7 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Free tickets will be required. Check http://mockelection.cornell.edu for information.

    October 14, 2004

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