y, November 1, 1984 The Capitol Times
tIX,VIIOI\I
A 9841
Based on 9 / 6 /84 Based On 50
preliminary enrollment students polled
700
Comparison of Federal Deficits
600
500
400
300
200
$l2) ($29)
man
1989, the national debt will climb to $3.1 trillion, eating up 32 cents of your tax dollar in interest payments on the debt alone
(Cumulative for each Administration
In Billions of Dollars)
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Voter registration draws
record student turnout
By Mark Edquid
As election day approaches,
students at Penn State and
around the country are ap
parently waiting to vote in
record numbers.
"Not only did Penn State
register more voters than any
other university in the nation,
but we also broke any previous
records at Penn State," said
Kevin DiGiammarino, voter
registration coordinator for the
university.
The Commonwealth Cam
puses contributed approximate
ly 2,200 new registered voters to
the Penn State total with
Capitol Campus contributing
50 new student voters.
DiGiammarino said that by
working with undergraduate
student governments and other
various campus organizations,
"we were able to register an
($39)
Johnson
outstanding number of 13,900
students."
The National Student Cam
paign for Voter Registration
(NSCVR) estimates there are
well over one million new stu
dent voters.
Students registered to vote --
and registered others
scale unprecedented in our
history," said Amy Kelly, Na
tional Office Coordinator of
NSCVR. She points to the na
tionwide cooperation of Public
Interest Research Groups
(PIRGs), the United States Stu
dent Association, State Student
Associations, student govern
ments, and campaign political
groups as the key to the cam
paign's success.
"Last Spring, a lot of people
in the country thought "student
politics" was a contradiction in
terms," says Kelly. "After this
fall, when students organized
themselves, registered, and are
now about to make a signifi-
($114) ($124)
Nixon
Ford
cant impact on the election --
after all that -- thost people
won't make that mistake
again."
Students registered other
students at voter registration
rallies, "Reg Fests," parties,
tables, dining halls and dorms,
walks, and class registration
lines.
-- on a
The University of Texas
/Austin registered 10,000 new
student voters. 6000 were
registered at State University of
New York in Albany. Ohio
State University reports 5600
registered for the fall elections.
On its way toward registering
4600 at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, the
voter registration coalition
there found that the city clerk
is "overwhelmed every time we
come in to turn in completed
registration forms -- they can't
believe the numbers," accor
ding to Kristin Hass, Michigan
coordinator for NSCVR.
($194)
Carter
Reagan
($670)