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Recent Behrend speaker in trouble
After debating Bob Beckel two weeks ago at
Behrend, Ed Rollins is debating with federal
authorities on whether he violated any criminal laws
during the recent New Jersey gubernatorial election.
Faculty Profile
of the Week
by Terry Rucker
Collegian Staff
Dr. Chester Wolford is an
English/business professor who
believes “the most important job
each of us have is to become a
better person.”
His belief is derived from a
quote from George Washington
Carver, which is his personal
favorite. “You are the handicap.
You must overcome.”
Originally from Tyrone,
Pennsylvania, Wolford received
his bachelor’s degree from the
University of Maryland which
awarded him a football
scholarship.
He went on to Georgetown
University to earn his master’s
degree.
Wolford received his Ph.D.
from Penn State using Stephen
Crane, author of “The Red Badge
of Courage” as the subject of his
thesis. Wolford went on to
write two books dealing with
Crane.
Wolford teaches a business
communications course and an
advanced business writing course
for senior business majors.
Next semester Wolford will
teach a course in classical
literature and leadership.
Prior to his college teaching,
Wolford taught a gifted class of
sixth graders in Holidaysburg
and a high school class in
Tyrone.
He advises students to
establish their priorities early.
“Your undergraduate career
"If the students ever feel
they are caught up in their
work, then their
university is doing them a
disservice."
should consist in choosing two
of the following: eating,
sleeping and studying.”
Wolford believes that “If the
students ever feel they are caught
up in their work, then their
university is doing them a
disservice.”
Along with his books about
Stephen Crane, Wolford has co
authored a book on business
by Hal D. Coffey
News Editor
Two weeks ago, Ed Rollins
came to Behrend to answer
questions during a debate, but
this week, he will answer
questions during a more negative
D-word activity - a deposition.
Along with Rollins, Webster
Tod Jr., Governor-elect Christie
Whittman’s brother and ex
campaign manager, and attorney
John Carbone, who worked for
the GOP state committee, will
have to answer to allegations
during depositions by lawyers
from the New Jersey and
Democratic committees.
Rollins is accused of tragging
that the Republicans paid
$500,000 in “street money” to
some black ministers and
Democratic workers to help keep
down urban turnout. He later
recanted.
However, U.S. District Court
Judge Dickinson Debovoise said
Rollins' original statement “has
an aura of admission.”
Tlie Democrats are seeking to
overturn the Nov. 2 election that
incumbent Gov. Jim Florio lost
by less than 27,000 votes.
communications.
He is presently working on a
book dealing with classical
literature and leadership.
As for the future, Wolford
wants to develop the literature
and leadership course here at
Behrend.
He also wants to figure out
how to get students to study as
much as they should because
“there are hard times for bad
boys in the university.”
Wolford doesn’t see himself
leaving the educational business
any time in the foreseeable
future.
“I enjoy teaching too much to
think about retiring,” Wolford
said.
His wife Gretchen is a lecturer
of technical and business writing
at Behrend.
They have a son who is
enrolled in the School of
Foreign Service at Georgetown.
Wolford said that Georgetown
is “Bill Clinton’s alma mater...
which causes me a modicum of
distress.”
Wolford’s hobbies consist of
hunting, fishing, sailing and
golf.
State and federal authorities are
also looking into possible
criminal charges.
There is no question that the
pay off of voters and political
officials is illegal, but some
experts believe that Florio, not
the Republicans, lost the
election.
Voter turnout in the cities and
statewide was nearly the same as
four years ago - and about
average for New Jersey
gubernatorial elections.
Florio simply didn’t get as
many of the votes cast in the
cities as he did in his 1989 romp
over Republican candidate Jim
Courter.
This problem may have
stemmed from the significant
drop in the number of registered'
city voters - the pool from
which Florio might have drawn.
If the allegations of
suppression of the black vote are
true, “they (the GOP) were aided
by an uninspired electorate,”
Rutgers public policy professor
Henry Coleman said.
Interest in the election was
low because “there wasn’t a
significant effort to embrace or
pay attention to the African
Dr. Chartes Wofford, this week's Faculty Profile of
the Week recipient, not only holds down an associate
professor position in the School of Business, but he
also is an associate professor in the Division of
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Thursday, November 18, 1993
American by either candidate,”
he said.
Meanwhile, the Florio
campaign failed to heed pleas
from party officials in urban
areas to mount a traditional voter
registration drive.
In Newark, for example, voter
turnout rose from 42.9% in
1989 to 48% this year, but voter
registration fell from 107,000 to
90,000.
Also, Florio failed to score
big in suburban counties. In
1989, he wracked up a plurality
of more than 100,000 votes in
Middlesex and Mercer counties
alone. In 1993, it was barely
3,000.
“The irony of this whole thing
is that Ed Rollins could have
simply said the Republicans did
a better job getting out their
voters,” said Steve Salamore, a
professor at Eagleton who helped
the Whittman campaign target
voters.
There are now two questions
to be decided by a federal judge:
If the GOP did suppress votes,
should the elections be redone
and should criminal charges be
brought against the party'
officials involved?