Students registering to vote at Friday Night Live
Bailey McBride
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: News
"I just registered to vote, and it was actually pretty easy," freshman Sarah Frederick said.
"It was great for us to have this opportunity to come and meet more students and volunteer," said Jong Shin, ASG vice president. "FNL is a great program to provide an alternative to students so they don't feel they have to go out and drink."
Shin also said he enjoyed the sense of campus community he felt at the event.
Other FNL and the ASG voter efforts, the Schools for Schools organization was present at the event trying to educate students about its program and the civil war in Uganda.
According to Erin Ridgeway, junior international relations major, Schools for Schools is a program where U.S. schools are paired with a school in Uganda to help raise funds and awareness, said Erin Ridgeway, a junior international relations major.
"Our pair for the university is called Gulu Secondary Schools," she said.
Many schools in Uganda were destroyed during the civil wars there. Schools for Schools is having a screening of the film "Invisible Children: Go" 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19.
The film documents U.S. high school students who spend two weeks in displacement camps in Uganda and hear the experiences of children there, said sophomore Holly Martin.
"It's a great way to open American children's eyes to what these children go through in Uganda," she said.
The film will also be attended by "Roadie" experts from Schools for Schools who will answer questions for interested students.
The first FNL of the year drew in around 2,000 people said Vanessa Stewart, a senior childhood education major.
All of the fall semester FNLs are planned during the summer, and student coordinators advertise them and encourage other students to participate when they arrive on campus in the fall.
"It was great for us to have this opportunity to come and meet more students and volunteer," said Jong Shin, ASG vice president. "FNL is a great program to provide an alternative to students so they don't feel they have to go out and drink."
Shin also said he enjoyed the sense of campus community he felt at the event.
Other FNL and the ASG voter efforts, the Schools for Schools organization was present at the event trying to educate students about its program and the civil war in Uganda.
According to Erin Ridgeway, junior international relations major, Schools for Schools is a program where U.S. schools are paired with a school in Uganda to help raise funds and awareness, said Erin Ridgeway, a junior international relations major.
"Our pair for the university is called Gulu Secondary Schools," she said.
Many schools in Uganda were destroyed during the civil wars there. Schools for Schools is having a screening of the film "Invisible Children: Go" 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19.
The film documents U.S. high school students who spend two weeks in displacement camps in Uganda and hear the experiences of children there, said sophomore Holly Martin.
"It's a great way to open American children's eyes to what these children go through in Uganda," she said.
The film will also be attended by "Roadie" experts from Schools for Schools who will answer questions for interested students.
The first FNL of the year drew in around 2,000 people said Vanessa Stewart, a senior childhood education major.
All of the fall semester FNLs are planned during the summer, and student coordinators advertise them and encourage other students to participate when they arrive on campus in the fall.
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posted 9/18/08 @ 10:25 AM CST
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