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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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Schwarzenegger Terminates Textbook Affordability Act
- LA Valley College Valley Star (new window)
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2007-10-24 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed Senate Bill 832, which would have reduced textbook prices for students. | |
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Oceanic Pollution Event Aims to Educate Students
- California Aggie (new window)
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2007-10-22 |
| CALPIRG will be hosting an event today at the Memorial Union in hopes of raising awareness about oceanic pollution. | |
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Conservation Week Comes to Campus
- UCSB Daily Nexus (new window)
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2007-10-22 |
| Presenting events such as a pie-throwing contest, the Clean Energy Carnival and a variety of other programs, campus organizers hope to increase future conservation efforts by hosting the UCSB Campus Sustainability Week. | |
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Governor OKs Bill on Textbook Requirements
- Berkeley Daily Cal (new window)
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2007-10-18 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law Saturday requiring campus bookstores to provide more pricing information on textbooks, vetoing a similar proposal that would have placed more requirements on publishers. | |
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Students Get Some Coaching to Tackle Credit Card Concerns
- Davis Enterprise (new window)
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2007-10-11 |
| Campaign leaders say credit card marketers go to college campuses to recruit students as new customers, using free gifts to entice them to apply for low-cost cards - cards that may include high fees and penalty interest rates in the contract's fine print. | |
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Colleges Urged to Rein in Credit Card Companies' Activities on Campus
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2007-10-11 |
| Colleges have turned a blind eye to aggressive and frequently deceptive credit card marketing on their campuses -- and sometimes even profit from it, a consumer group said Wednesday, calling on schools to curb the practices. | |
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CALPIRG Stresses Dangers of Debt
- UCSB Daily Nexus (new window)
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2007-10-11 |
| In an effort to prevent students from entering into large credit card debt, the UCSB chapter of CALPIRG tabled at the Arbor yesterday as part of its Truth About Credit campaign. | |
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