CSPAN Bus Visits Campus

From the ONU Website: The CSPAN Bus made a stop in Ada Wednesday October 4.  The bus tours campuses to build student interest in politics and elections.  Several hundred students stopped by to see the electronics inside the bus and high school students from Ada and Lima Senior High aslo came to see the spectacal.  College Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians set up booths along side the bus to generate buzz for their candidates register voters, and hand out pins and other campaign materials.  You can read tweets by ONU students on the web address above.

The CSPAN bus visit also provided another chance for our students to appear in the local media.  Students were interviewed on WLIO and in the Lima News.  Junior History major Franklin Howard was quoted as saying "We want as many people to make and informed decision as possible...with CSPAN being such a national body coming to places like ONU, it is so inspiring.  It is telling people that their votes matter."

The CSPAN visit was only one of a large number of events that ONU has planned around the election.  HPJ will hold debate watch-parties for the presidential and vice-presidential debates, and our students will also be holding issue debates for their fellow students.  It will be a busy and fun final month of the campaign season!