Student voter registration rally draws small turnout
By Chester Allen
Emerald Reporter
What if they held a student rally and
nobody tame?
University President Myles Brand and
ASUO President Bobby Leo almost got a
chance to find out during a student voter
registration rally In the EMU courtyard at
11 a m. Thursday
Under a gray, cloudy sky. Brand, Loo
and other speakers urged u small crowd
of loss than 75 people to register to vote
in time for Iho November election. The
rally was sponsored by ASUO and
OSPIRG as part of National Student Vot
er Education Day.
“A lot of folks were concentrated
around the Street Fairo.” Lee said. "They
were pretty busy over there, but wo did
sign up a lot of students.”
Despite the rally's low turnout. Loo
said student volunteers registered 400
new voters.
Lee said the ASUO hopes to register
8,000 students by the Oct. 13 voter regis
tration deadline.
Brund told the crowd students ure an
important group of voters.
“Registering to vote is the most Impor
tant thing you can do now,” Brand said.
"You are the decision makers. You de
cide what happens."
Matt Aberbach, OSPIRG campus direc
tor, asked students to educate themselves
about cloction issues.
“Registering to vote is only tho first
stop." Aberbach said. "You need to edu
cate yourself on the issuos and got out
and vote."
Cynthia Wooten, Democratic candidate
for the state District 41 Houso of Repre
sentatives seat, said students need to reg
ister und vote to protect their educational
opportunities.
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"Perhaps for the first time In a long
time, there Is a line drawn in the sand,
and It affects each one of you In terms of
your education,” Wooten said
University students had a variety of re
actions to the rally.
Jennifer Nelson, 22. said she had al
ready registered on campus
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Praaidant Myiet Brand (right) and ASUO
Preaidant Bobby Leo urged atudanta to
ragtatar to vote and participate In the Nov.
3 election.
"! just stopped by to listen to the
speakers," she said. "I have teen out of
Oregon for the past six months, and I'm
trying to get educated on the Issues.”
Richard Cantwell, a political science
major, said the rally prompted him to
register to vote.
"I just moved to Eugene, and I was
planning on registering," Cnntwell said.
"This just made registering really conve
nient."
Chemistry major Maxwell Johnson had
his own reason for registering to vote
"I'm going to take part in the revolu
tion,” Johnson said. "I registered because
I want the revolution to start today.”
Loo said the rally was part of concen
trated (ampaign to register new student
voters.
“There will be another rally next
weak, and wo will te hitting classrooms,
too,” Lee suid. "We will also te going
door-to-door this weekend."
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