- May 5th, 2010, 10:57 am
#307166
I just want to hear some of your thoughts on the whole thing.
My thoughts;
1. I graduated in '10 (well Fall '09 actually, a semester early) with a Bachelor Degrees in Politics and Policy and Pre-Law and am a Constitutional Conservative with a heavy dose of Libertarian/State Rights mixed in. I was ok with LU wanting to help students register to vote during the '08 elections (I already was and still am registered in NoVA), but I did not like how it was done. Often, LU took up academic time, sometimes up to 20 min of registration drivel, at the beginning of class, to push the effort. I started showing up to class 10min late because of it, and my professors didn't care. Most of my professors were annoyed at having to do it, because it was a poor use of our tuition dollars taking up their and our class time with a voter registration effort that should have been restricted to a table in the Courtyard. I hear it was much the same this time around from my friends that are still in school.
2. Also, taking up Convo time with the same nonsense, was also just as insulting. Class and Convo. Two places where you have to listen, even if you don't want to.
3. As I've said before, the majority of Liberty students have no long term vested interest in this area.
4. National elections are viewed as more glamorous and more impactful than local elections.
5. Many LU students, I believe, have felt used by the university for political purposes on multiple issues over the last few years and therefore will not vote in any election other than a national one where there is something more at stake.
6. The more pro-Liberty canidates ran terrible campaigns. Seriously, they blew it because they were overconfident that the LU/TRBC vote would carry them, and did little to inspire confidence in LU/TRBC people to turn out. And they certaintly did little to garner votes from elsewhere.
It's not that I don't believe in what LU is trying to do. I think it is an awesome vision, which I hope to see realized some day. But imploring students (some who are extremely impressionable) to help Liberty by voting a certain way, as a way to get there, is not the way to do it.
Seriously though. What do other people think about it all?
My thoughts;
1. I graduated in '10 (well Fall '09 actually, a semester early) with a Bachelor Degrees in Politics and Policy and Pre-Law and am a Constitutional Conservative with a heavy dose of Libertarian/State Rights mixed in. I was ok with LU wanting to help students register to vote during the '08 elections (I already was and still am registered in NoVA), but I did not like how it was done. Often, LU took up academic time, sometimes up to 20 min of registration drivel, at the beginning of class, to push the effort. I started showing up to class 10min late because of it, and my professors didn't care. Most of my professors were annoyed at having to do it, because it was a poor use of our tuition dollars taking up their and our class time with a voter registration effort that should have been restricted to a table in the Courtyard. I hear it was much the same this time around from my friends that are still in school.
2. Also, taking up Convo time with the same nonsense, was also just as insulting. Class and Convo. Two places where you have to listen, even if you don't want to.
3. As I've said before, the majority of Liberty students have no long term vested interest in this area.
4. National elections are viewed as more glamorous and more impactful than local elections.
5. Many LU students, I believe, have felt used by the university for political purposes on multiple issues over the last few years and therefore will not vote in any election other than a national one where there is something more at stake.
6. The more pro-Liberty canidates ran terrible campaigns. Seriously, they blew it because they were overconfident that the LU/TRBC vote would carry them, and did little to inspire confidence in LU/TRBC people to turn out. And they certaintly did little to garner votes from elsewhere.
It's not that I don't believe in what LU is trying to do. I think it is an awesome vision, which I hope to see realized some day. But imploring students (some who are extremely impressionable) to help Liberty by voting a certain way, as a way to get there, is not the way to do it.
Seriously though. What do other people think about it all?
Last edited by WinterIsComing on May 5th, 2010, 11:16 am, edited 2 times in total.
Truth spoken right there.
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