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Campus Review
October 22, 2012
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Trivia Time
Drama at Weehawken
By John Shiffert, University Relations
named conference "Coach of the Year" for
the sixth time in his career.
Clayton State sophomore Valadez led the
way for the team, finishing third in the
meet with a time of 22:51, the 13th fastest
6K in Laker history. Valadez was only 15
seconds off the winning time of Livia
Mahaffie of UNC Pembroke.
"Racquel ran a superb race, moving up
from about 16th at the mile mark to 3rd
overall," says Mead.
Behind Valadez, junior Walling finished
sixth in the race with a time of 23:05.
Walling passed a number of runners in the
last half of the race to earn All-
Conference honors for the second year in
a row and to help lead the Lakers to the
title. Her time is the 17th best on the all-
time Clayton State 6K list.
Senior Paige Galvin also delivered when
it mattered most, also earning All-
Conference honors for the second time.
She finished with a time of 23:07 for a
seventh place finish, her highest finish in
a league meet.
Battling an injury, sophomore Smith fin-
ished 22nd with a time of 23:59 and soph-
omore Kuhnen rounded out the scoring
for Clayton State placing 25th with a per-
sonal best time of 24:12.
"Jess ran a gutsy race considering the
physical setbacks coming back from an
injury that kept her out of making All-
PBC again this year," notes Mead. "She's
a key to our region success in two weeks."
Freshman Taylor Galvin and junior Javois
both had a personal best time of 24:13 to
finish 27th and 28th in the meet.
Sophomore Holly McNorton placed 55th
with a season best time of 26:09, followed
by sophomore Kendra Wilson finishing
59th with a time of 26:34.
Clayton State will take off next week
before returning to action on Saturday,
Nov. 3 in the NCAADivision II Southeast
Regional at McAlpine Creek Park in
Charlotte, N.C.
And you thought the current round of
presidential debates presented high
drama… That’s nothing compared to
some of the doings of the Founding
Fathers who, while also founding the
U.S., in many cases didn’t care too
much for each other.
A case can be made that the ultimate
lightning rod among those worthies
was Alexander Hamilton; first secre-
tary of the Treasury, leading light of
the Federalist Party, founder of the
Bank of the United States, proponent
of what would now be called “big
government,” financial wizard, and a
native of the British West Indies.
Brilliant Hamilton might have been;
popular, he wasn’t. Thomas Jefferson
would gladly have voted to deport
Hamilton back to the West Indies, and
Jefferson’s first vice president, Aaron
Burr, thought so little of Hamilton that
he shot and killed him in an otherwise
illegal duel in Weehawken, N.J. Of
course, Hamilton had recently
exposed Burr’s plot to try and take
New England and NewYork out of the
Union, so the highly-unscrupulous
former VP had good reason to be
upset.
The other “issue” regarding Hamilton
(at least in terms of the last trivia ques-
tion) was as to his eligibility to be
president. Although his political star
was setting when Burr shot him in
1804, making it unlikely at that point
that either Hamilton or the Federalists
would ever get to the top office, he
was eligible for the presidency, thanks
to the codicil in the Constitution that
stated that those running for the presi-
dency must be either a natural born cit-
izen or a citizen when the Constitution
was adopted in 1789. If that last line
hadn’t been inserted, well, George
Washington wouldn’t have been eligi-
ble, since he wasn’t a natural-born
American citizen. (In fact, none of the
first seven presidents were – Martin
Van Buren was the first president born
in the U.S.)
This brief lesson in American history
was brought to you by, not the Clayton
State History Department, but Lou
Brackett, Kurt-Alexander Zeller, and
Brett Reichert, all of whom may well
be followers of the Federalist Party, or
at least readers of the Federalist
Papers.
Keeping with the presidential debate
theme, who moderated the famous
Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Cross Country, cont’d., from p. 15