WSGA candidate debate to mark firsts

Follow the extra-long Ethernet cable snaked through Mabee Library on Monday and it will lead to a new kind of WSGA candidate debate.

Washburn Review is changing the venue and streaming it live on www.washburnreview.org/wsga. The debate, part of Mondays at Mabee, is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will also be recorded, and made available at the same location on the Web site.

This year, the Review staff wanted the event at a place that students would make a conscious decision to attend. The past few years it has been in the Living Learning Center lobby.

“We are changing over to make the debate more academic,” said ReAnne Utemark, senior history major and editor-in-chief for Washburn Review.

This is Utemark’s third year as moderator of the debate. She will ask the candidates some prepared questions then will facilitate questions from the crowd. The live stream will feature audience polling and chat capabilities, allowing Internet viewers to interact with the candidates.

The event is sponsored and staffed by the Review office as an objective third party.