{"id":23356,"date":"2004-10-09T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:55:45","slug":"register-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/10\/09\/register-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates community urged to register, vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/10\/72vpdebate9299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/10\/72vpdebate9299.jpg\" alt=\"72vpdebate9299\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s often said that democracies are measured by the participation of their citizens,&#8221; President Elaine Tuttle Hansen observed. &#8220;We are fortunate at Bates to have student Democrats and Republicans who each year take that civic commitment to heart and work to register their fellow students.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hansen listed several ways Bates is getting out the vote as we approach Election Day Nov. 2:<\/p>\n<p>* As in past years, both groups set up tables on Orientation Day to register new students to vote. Since then, the effort has continued one-to-one.<\/p>\n<p>* Discussions on the debates have been moderated by Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Stephanie Kelley Romano and Professor of Political Science James Richter. Richter is also moderating a series of student discussions about election issues each Wednesday, 6-7 p.m. in the Rowe Room of Commons.\u00a0 Occasional guests have included Judy Meyer, editorial page editor of the Lewiston Sun Journal.<\/p>\n<p>* TV debate-watching nights are being organized around their respective big screens by the Republicans, Democrats, and those who prefer a non-partisan venue.<\/p>\n<p>*A panel discussion was held on Oct. 6 to discuss the Palesky Tax Cap referendum in Maine, and what it would mean to Lewiston.\u00a0 Panelists were:\u00a0 John L. Painter, Candidate for District 74; Dale Douglas, Maine School Management Association; Nathan Harrington, Bates &#8217;05; Weston Bonney, Maine State School Board; Tom Hood, Longley Elementary School Principal; Robert Walker, President of Maine Education Association and chair of Maine Education Leadership Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Election issues will again be the topic of a speech by Thomas E. Mann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brook.edu\/scholars\/tmann.htm\">www.brook.edu\/scholars\/tmann.htm<\/a> of the Brookings Institution on &#8220;The 2004 Election: What&#8217;s at Stake?&#8221; at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in Chase Hall Lounge.\u00a0 There will be a voter registration drive outside of Chase Lounge beginning at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s often said that democracies are measured by the participation of their citizens,&#8221; President Elaine Tuttle Hansen observed. &#8220;We are fortunate at Bates to have student Democrats and Republicans who each year take that civic commitment to heart and work to register their fellow students.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[31,195],"tags":[1372,1416,10837,10881,10830,10770,10754],"class_list":["post-23356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiston-auburn","category-news-politics","tag-bates-college-republicans","tag-bates-democrats","tag-chase-hall","tag-james-richter","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-politics","tag-rhetoric-film-and-screen-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141030,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356\/revisions\/141030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}