Few students plan to vote absentee
With three state primaries coming up in as many weeks, student interest in voting remains mixed. Though nearly 200 students registered to vote in the drive that Women in Politics sponsored in Collis Center two weeks ago, many students are unaware of when their own home state primary takes place, and express a general disinterest in politics. "I don't even know when it is -- obviously I'm clueless," said Jennifer Nistad '03, a resident of South Carolina, where the next primary takes place this Saturday. "For sure there's [political] apathy," Scott Given '02, Director of the Bill Bradley campaign at Dartmouth, said, adding that he only became interested in politics when he came to college. "Before I came to Dartmouth, I was completely apathetic to politics, and I think getting myself involved with the events that took place here on campus helped spur my interest to what's going on now," he said.