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I Pledged CALPIRG! (California Public Interest Research Group)
- New University (new window)
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2009-04-27 |
| Photo Essay -- Photos of students pledging support for CalPIRG at UC Irvine. | |
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CALPIRG Moves for Diversion of Funds
- New University (new window)
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2009-04-20 |
| Irvine's drivers may soon share the road with trolleys and other light-rail vehicles. Last week, UC Irvine's California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG) chapter intensified its campaign for alternative forms of transportation. | |
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Students ask leaders to tackle global warming
- Daily Sound (new window)
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2009-03-26 |
| Standing in front of a wooden windmill yesterday at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, students from throughout the state called on national leaders to pass firm legislation to stem greenhouse gas emissions and halt global warming. | |
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UC Davis Bookstore ranks among top in nation in affordability
- California Aggie (new window)
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2009-03-09 |
| Textbook prices an ongoing effort for state, UC. | |
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UC Campuses Tops in Student Voter Registration
- UCSF Synapse (new window)
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2008-11-13 |
| Recently UC campuses joined the Ultimate College Bowl, a national contest that will award scholarships and a free concert with Death Cab for Cutie to the students and school that register the most students to vote. | |
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Common to headline pre-election bash
- Daily Trojan (new window)
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2008-10-28 |
| USG plans to host concert after VoteSCount, which registered just under 5,000 students. | |
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Voter Registration Drives Draw Thousands
- News10/KXTV, Sacramento CA (new window)
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2008-10-17 |
| SACRAMENTO, CA - By the thousands, Californians are signing up to vote at registration drives being held statewide. One of the largest drives was held Monday at the Sacramento Convention Center in downtown Sacramento where an estimated 3,000 people were expected to register until the doors closed at midnight. "There's a lot of issues, a lot of things that need addressing, and I've been studying for quite a bit of it and I want to know my vote counts," said Melvin Smith of Citrus Heights. The Secretary of State's office reports that California will likely set a record for voter registration surpassing the record of 16.6 million people who registered in 2004. To vote in the November 4 election, voters had to deliver their registration cards to their county elections office or have them postmarked by Monday, October 20. | |
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Riding for the rail
- Fresno Bee (new window)
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2008-03-26 |
| On a pretty spring day when bystanders were exclaiming that you could see the mountains instead of the usual haze, a group of about 50 college students bicycled into Fresno to rally for a high-speed rail system in California. | |
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Students find altruistic alternative to spring break partying
- Sacramento Bee (new window)
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2008-03-22 |
| Spring break has finally arrived for UC Davis senior Dan Xie, and with the specter of adult life looming before her, she is welcoming the week as her "last hurrah of fun" as a college student. | |
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Act Would Lower Textbook Prices
- Daily Trojan (new window)
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2008-02-13 |
| The U.S. House of Representatives passed the College Opportunity and Affordability Act last week, but without an amendment that would have provided bankruptcy rights to private student loan borrowers. | |
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CALPIRG shows support
- Daily Trojan (new window)
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2008-02-08 |
| Anne Chatprapachai, a freshman majoring in international relations-global business, helps CalPIRG show its support for a proposed high speed rail line at an event on University Parkway. The rail would connect the Central Valley to San Jose and the Peninsula to San Francisco. In November 2008, California voters will be able to vote for a bond measure to start laying the tracks and get the train moving. | |
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Don't Just Vote - Stay Active to Cause Change
- Daily Bruin (new window)
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2008-02-07 |
| As I was walking up Bruin Walk yesterday, I saw CALPIRG out in full force with a banner that read: "Make Them Pay Attention To Us - Vote." So I voted. Now what? Are the politicians paying attention now? Or did I just get to sport my "I Voted" sticker and a piece of candy from the Bruin Democrats for nothing? | |
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Campus Carnival Promotes Student Voting
- The Palestra.com (new window)
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2008-02-06 |
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How to turn Out young Voters
- CAP Radio, Morning Edition (new window)
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2008-02-06 |
| What do you get when you take a gorilla suit and a bunch of college students - then apply games like "Whack-a-Mole" to Election Day get-out-the-vote efforts? KXJZ takes a look at one minor ingredient in Tuesday's estimated record turnout. | |
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Campaigners Encouraging College Students to Vote
- KPBS (new window)
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2008-02-05 |
| Get-Out-The-Vote campaigners at UC San Diego are encouraging hundreds of students to take time between their classes to head to the polls. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has the story. | |
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USC forms committee for sustainability
- Daily Trojan (new window)
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2008-02-04 |
| In an attempt to make the campus greener, USC administrators has created the Sustainability Steering Committee to coordinate existing student and faculty environmental work, marking the first time administrators have led collaborative sustainability efforts. "I think the important thing is that this is coming from an administrative level," said Ruchika Gupta, vice chair of USC's chapter of CalPIRG and a junior majoring in international relations. | |
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Young voters are stoked
- salon.com (new window)
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2008-02-02 |
| Genuinely inspired, the Facebook generation is turning out to vote in record numbers. Will they make a difference? | |
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Student organizations lead early voting effort on campus
- The California Aggie (new window)
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2008-02-01 |
| Students encouraged to participate in Super Tuesday. In an effort to enhance voter turnout, Yolo County Clerks Office had set up four Yolo County polling locations where voters have until 4 p.m. today to cast their 2008 primary ballots early. | |
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Federal Bill Meant to Lower Cost of Textbooks
- The Daily Californian (new window)
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2008-01-28 |
| The U.S. House of Representatives may consider a piece of legislation in the next few weeks that, if passed, could make textbook-buying and other college costs easier on students' checkbooks. | |
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Students turn out for registration week
- Daily Trojan (new window)
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2008-01-24 |
| CalPIRG's booth in Haan Plaza attracts more than 1,000 voters. Campus organizations' final attempt to register students to vote before the California primary deadline ended Tuesday, with more than 500 students registering on Tuesday alone. | |
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Forum Previews the Issues in Advance of Super Tuesday
- UC Riverside Newsroom (new window)
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2008-01-24 |
| Student groups seek to inform Democratic voters on the candidates | |
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UCSC students round up voters on registration deadline
- Santa Cruz Sentinel (new window)
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2008-01-23 |
| Students and other volunteers participating in the New Voters Project with the nonpartisan California Public Interest Research Group, or CALPIRG, have registered several hundred voters during campus visits since Thursday. The group hit dorm halls over the weekend and dining halls during the dinner rush Tuesday before hauling registration cards down to county headquarters before midnight. | |
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12,300 UC Students Registered in Time for Primary
- The Daily Californian (new window)
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2008-01-23 |
| The University of California Students Association announced yesterday afternoon that they had registered more than 12,300 new voters for the Feb. 5 election, just short of its goal of 14,000. | |
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Last-Minute Registration Drives Bring in New Voters
- ABC News10.net (new window)
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2008-01-22 |
| Video - See link - Efforts to encourage eligible voters to register in time for the February 5 primary were held throughout California. | |
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POLL: Will you vote on Super Tuesday?
- The Orange County Register (new window)
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2008-01-22 |
| UCI project signs up dozens of new voters for the Feb. 5 primary. | |
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| 2008-01-21 | |
| Video - See Link - Tuesday marked the final day for Californians to register to vote in Feb. 5 Primary Elections. | |
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Students have ballot options
- Daily Bruin (new window)
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2008-01-11 |
| With the California primary elections less than a month away, absentee ballots provide students with a quick and easy way to vote, but some recommend that students take the time to visit the polls in person. | |
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Valley Students Rocking for Youth Votes
- LA Valley College Valley Star (new window)
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2007-11-14 |
| Valley College students will have the chance to rock out and have their say in the 2008 presidential elections tomorrow at the 'Voting Rocks' concert, presented by the Valley chapter of the California Public Interest Research Group. | |
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USC Gets Boost in Sustainability GPA
- USC Daily Trojan (new window)
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2007-11-06 |
| USC received a "C+" on its commitment to environmental sustainability, according to the 2008 Sustainable Endowment Institute's College Sustainability Report Card on Oct. 24 - more than a full letter grade improvement from the "D" the university received in the 2007 report, released in February. | |
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Rally Pushes Higher Awareness of Climate Change
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2007-11-04 |
| "Climate change and sustainability are huge issues for students," said Mallory Sadan, student coordinator of the Berkeley campus event, which was sponsored by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) as part of its Campus Climate Change Campaign. | |
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