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Erik R. Bishoff | Photographer Secretary of State Bill Bradbury and University President Dave Frohnmayer chat immediately following their presentation at the voter rally Thursday afternoon. Only about 100 people showed up to the event, held at the EMU. ON DEMAND WHAT IF EVERYTHIN WAS ON YOUR SCHEDULE? IT IS NOW WITH COMCAST THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS on Cinemax* MASTER AND COMMANDER on HfiO* LARRY KING LIVE on CNN YOU’RE INVITED on On Style! «r With Comcast On Demand, you can choose from hundreds of movies and shows. Start, pause, fast-forward and rewind them whenever you want. You'll never wait for a show to start again! (Comcast. Otter expires 10/31/04 Certain restrictions apply. Call Comcast hr complete details about services and prices. Certain services are available separately or as a part ol oilier levels of service of video programming, and not all seivices ate available m all areas. 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Bishoff | Photographer "Mighty Oregon," the University fight song, reverberates through the EMU Amphitheater as members from the Green and Yellow Garter Bands take part in Thursday's voter rally. Bradbury: Students must vote to be heard nationally Continued from page 8A described as a "well-organized and deeply committed” effort to register all students. The University has long had a rep utation for being one of the most po litically active campuses in the na tion, Frohnmayer said. Prior to his speech, he described what he called a “muscular tradi tion of strong voter turnout” at the University, emphasizing that get out-the-vote efforts on campus have always been effective and nonpartisan. “It has to be nonpartisan, and people have been very scrupulous about it,” he said about the current voter-registration drive on campus. Frohnmayer praised current ef forts by student leaders to continue the University’s long tradition of “civic responsibility and engage ment” and warned that if students don’t vote, their opinions will not be listened to. However, the number of students throughout the rally left some won dering where everyone was and why the rally didn’t get more publicity. “It was almost insulting,” fresh man Alison Angelos said. “I almost felt bad that (Bradbury) came all the way over here and hardly anyone showed.” Sophomore Claire Dyrud said al though she did not know the event was taking place until it began, it seemed like an effective way of get ting students’ attention and inspir ing them to vote. “It’s intriguing; it makes people interested,” she said. Sophomore Sara Hamilton said the rally was as effective as it could be, given the amount of apathetic stu dents on campus who were simply unaware that the rally was going on. “If students knew that their vote matters, they might be more inter ested,” she said. Along with local voter registration groups, a group calling themselves "Billionaires for Bush” was in attendance. Armed with signs and dressed in formal attire, Billionaires for Bush volunteers described their purpose as being centered around maintain ing the status quo they said the Bush administration has worked so hard to establish. “Democracy’s really not for every one — we should just leave it to the billionaires,” said a volunteer who gave his name as Pluto Crat. Sophomore Jane Wilson-Moses applauded the group’s presence, em phasizing that while some students may not immediately understand the satire behind the message, its ef forts are refreshing and inspiring. “It’s respectful of people’s intelli gence, which is not true for what passes for political debate in this country,” Wilson-Moses said. ASUO State Affairs Coordinator Amy DuFour said the rally was a tremendous success. She said the aim of the event was not just to show students that their voices can make a difference, a message both Bradbury and Frohnmayer heavily emphasized in their speeches, but to show students that voting is not as boring as some make it out to be. “Voting is fun,” DuFour said. meghanncimiff@ daily emerald, com IN BRIEF: ELECTIONS Mood lively at Thursday Veterans for Kerry event Supporters of the Veterans for Kerry campaign gathered to cheer for presi dential candidate John Kerry and chuckle at every perceived faux pas by president Bush Thursday night. When president Bush, in response to the moderator’s question, said "Saddam Hussein had no intention of disarming,” several members of the crowd of like-minded Kerry support ers shouted at the television screens, “Disarm what?” The lively crowd of more than 100 met at the Veterans Memorial Build ing in Eugene. The topics for the debate were for eign policy and homeland security. University senior Nick Gallagher said if Kerry were president at the time Bush decided to go to war, “he would have been more dedicated to foreign policy. ” Many veterans and other attendees were unified in their opinion that president Bush put U.S. troops at an unnecessary risk by failing to gain in ternational support for the Iraq war. In his haste to go to war, presi dent Bush "ignored the possibility of coalition building,” senior John Atherton said. Atherton, a linguistics major, said the war with Iraq “should have gone forward without the support of the U.N.” Clinical psychologist and Army veteran Jack Dresser said there is no question that president Bush has “completely alienated the rest of the world.” Adding, “He just doesn’t care about foreign policy.” — Michael A. Booth GOT A STORY IDEA? give us a call qj at 346-5511 J<
