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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.
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"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
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