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Love Your Vote campaign
comes to University today
The campaign to register
Voter virgins' will take place
in the EMU Amphitheater
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
By Nika Carlson
News Reporter
Cupid, young lovers and bitter
singles have a new companion this
year — the voter virgin.
University students are being in
vited to declare that they, like thou
sands of other 18- to 24-year-olds,
have never voted and are being
asked to register to vote as part of the
Love Your Vote campaign.
The campaign — organized by the
New Voters Project, the Hip Hop Sum
mit Action Network and VoterVirgin —
will take over the EMU Amphitheater
today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., offering
temporary tattoos, stickers, T-shirts and
candy as an incentive to get students
registered to vote
The event is one of nearly 40 voter
registration rallies that are scheduled
to take place around the country
based on the Valentine's Day-related
theme of Love Your Vote.
"It's light-hearted and fun," said
Terra Sorensen, the organizer of the
Eugene rally "I feel like there's so
much talk about voting as a civic
duty and a responsibility. It can be
something that's engaging."
Portland, Salem, Ashland and
Corvallis are also hosting Love Your
Vote events, as well as distant cities
like Orlando, Fla., and Des Moines,
Iowa. Rock the Vote, MTV's Chose or
Lose campaign and the World
Wrestling Entertainment's Smack
down Your Vote! are also recogniz
ing the events.
Sorensen, who works for the New
Voters Project, says the campaign is
trying to get young voters interested
and involved in voting by connect
ing the romance of democracy with
the romance of Valentine's Day.
She said she hopes to get 50 peo
ple registered to vote today.
Graduate student Emily I Iirsch, 24,
said the New Voter Project got her in
volved in activism for the first time.
"For my undergraduate studies I
never really got involved with any
thing and I wanted to change that,"
she said. "This seemed like a good
opportunity."
She said she's been spreading the
word about the Love Your Vote cam
paign, concerned that young people
feel like their votes don't count.
"We've seen with the last presi
dential election that isn't true," she
said. "I think people are starting to
realize that."
Hirsch said she expects today's
events to be a lot of fun.
"It's a new way to do it," she said.
"I think more peer-to-peer contact
is important. Really it just seems
like no one is asking young people
to vote."
The New Voter Campaign spans
Oregon, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada,
New Mexico and Wisconsin and
aims to register more than 1 million
young people before the November
election, according to its Web site.
"This is a big campaign basically
building up to the presidential elec
tion," Sorensen said.
According to the project, there are
more than 28 million eligible voters
between 18 and 24. Sorenson said
that group could be a powerful
force if it made the effort to vote,
but its interests are rarely addressed
by politicians.
"I really believe that would hap
pen if that age group voted in a high
percentage," she said. "I'm excited to
see it happen."
Contact the city/state politics reporter
at nikacarlson@dailyemerald.com.
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"With these donations we get
from this food drive we can do that
work," she said.
Food donations are especially im
portant now as foodbanks around
the country, including FOOD for
Lane County, report a decrease in do
nations, Turell said.
"At the same time we've seen an
increase in need," she said.
Apart from the food drive, Turell
said the University has been involved
with the organization in other ways.
For instance, the organization has
many volunteers from the campus.
"We really feel that our partnership
with the University of Oregon makes
our work possible and we're very ap
preciative of that," she said.
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