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The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
Showing up at the polls is one thing. Putting your name on the ballot and actually winning an election, as Northeastern University sophomore political science major Jeff Fontas did yesterday, is a whole other thing.
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Second Bests: "In a Relationship" . . . with Voting
The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
Inspired by Gov.-elect Deval Patrick's higher-ed positions, University of Massachusetts students voted enthusiastically, the Daily Collegian reports.
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Honorable Mentions: Just Like Voting as a Friend
The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
George Washington University students care—but their attention was less on CNN than it was on a fist-to-fist jousting match between the campus presidents of the College Democrats and the College Republicans.
The Ball State University Daily News manages to find some students who really care, a whole, whole lot.
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It's Too Complicated: Would Vote, if Only They Knew How...
The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
Some Columbia University students who registered with their campus addresses had to fill out provisional ballots--because they just couldn't find their polling station, says the Spectator.
Washington University in St.
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Dishonorable Mentions: Help Needed
The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
A Duke Chronicle election blogger saw more students "absorbed in their economics textbooks or their dinner conversations" than by televisions tuned to CNN.
A Rutgers University voting station had only 12 voters by noon yesterday, the Daily Targum reports, picking "quiet" as the euphemistic adjective of choice.
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Embarrassing Mentions: Not Even Facebook Friends With Voting
The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
In an ASU Herald poll, Arkansas State students list their No. 1 issue by far: "Don't Know.
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