It was 1974 and the Watergate scandal had just broken. President Nixon was addressing a crowd and railing against The
Washington Post.
Behind the crowd, one man climbed to the top of a ladder and positioned himself next to the flagpole. From there, he got the shots every other photographer craved.
As this year's election
approaches, Democratic
and Republican candidates
are more significant than
ever.
Barack Obama, a black
male, is the Democratic
presidential nominee and
Sarah Palin, only the second
female in history to be
nominated for a major party,
is the Republican nominee
for vice president.
For many ASU students, the 2008 presidential election is the first presidential election in which their voices will be heard.
"This is their chance to make a difference, to not let someone else decide their future," Craighead County Clerk Nancy Nelms said.
Faculty and staff were asked in a Friday town hall meeting for campus constituents to take the student body into consideration while deciding changes to the proposed Shared
Governance Process.
"I urge you to keep in mind that students do have a say and want to have a say in what happens on campus," Nathan
Gastineau, president of the Graduate Student Counsel, said.