In the midst of a long gap between presidential primaries, student supporters of presidential candidates are searching for opportunities to stay involved in the race.
The Missouri Republican State Convention, to be held this weekend in St. Louis, is one such event that hopes to energize the college demographic.
For weeks before former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales came to Washington University, students organized to both support and protest his presence on the University’s campus.
Before the speech began, the College Republicans prepared themselves for the large group of student protestors.
In the midst of the closest presidential nomination campaign in recent memory, this week’s Super Tuesday primary contests were among the most crucial in the long run to the White House.
For the first time in some of their lives, many Washington University students voted in Missouri on Tuesday, influencing the closest primary in the entire nation; Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won by about 10,000 votes and Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain of Arizona won by about 8,700 votes.
Looking around at the campaign trail in the 2008 election, one cannot help but notice marked differences from previous elections.
Instead of the impassioned doctor Howard Dean challenging the staid Massachusetts senator John Kerry, an African-American senator is competing with a former first lady and fellow senator for the Democratic nomination.
When I signed up for Human Evolution last spring, I had one clear concept of how we evolved from monkeys and apes. I knew that our life and the life of our offspring depended on the survival of the fittest-among many, only a few would grow and thrive. While this concept frightened me, and even now still perplexes me, I had no idea of how much it has and does affect my daily existence.
This past summer was an especially rough one for me romantically, primarily due to events in my freshman year. I began the summer by finally starting to get over the person I liked the entire previous school year. I cried, I yelled at myself (both externally and internally) and I weaned myself away from the constant urge to attempt communication with him.
I remember filling out the housing forms before my freshman year and getting to the section about rooms. On the application, it said I could choose between a single, double or triple room. I thought it over, and for a few days, I thought the best thing would be to have a single room.
The other day, I unsuspectingly walked into my friend’s room. Not surprisingly, she was checking Facebook. I didn’t really understand how the look on her face corresponded to the mild stalking she was doing. Then, I learned the real reason for her distress.
When I was in high school I had a big group of friends that was mostly girls and a few guys on the side. I had always felt more comfortable around girls. Among the sad sampling of guys at my high school, there was always one that stood out to me, though not for his incredible good looks, his witty charm or his amazing physique.
My sophomore year of high school, my best friend started dating an Orthodox Jew. The son of a Hasidic rabbi, he wasn’t even supposed to touch the opposite sex, much less my not-so-Orthodox friend. Whenever she talked about her boyfriend, my friend acted like she already had wedding invitations embossed and china on hold at all major department stores.
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