This weekend, Camp Wellstone is coming to campus! What is Camp Wellstone? According to wellstone.org, "Campus Camp Wellstone trains students nationwide on how to run energized, community building, winningcampaigns. We focus on campus and community organizing and young voter engagement."...
Today at noon, Stanford students will unexpectedly gather en masse inside Stanford's student union (Tresidder Memorial Union), to protest the passage of Proposition 8 and remind California residents that the passing of Proposition 8 sends a destructive message to the...
Two-hundred and sixty five Stanford students gathered today at the Women's Community Center on campus for a "MEGAPHONEBANK MARATHON to Defeat Prop 8", according to a representative from the Stanford Student Coalition for Marriage Equality (SCME). This makes the effort...
I’ve always been a firm believer in the separation of Church and state. Even as a young child, I intuitively understood then necessity of keeping religion out of public discourse, even though my parents were evangelical fundamentalists. I’m a believer...
Today is the February 5th election in Santa Clara, and early reports suggest that Stanford voters have already "blown through the ballots". Polling started at 7am and close at 8pm, but reportedly you will be able to get your vote...
I've participated in several voter registration and GOTV efforts on campus and elsewhere because I believe strongly that active participation in government is integral to the health of our democracy. It is vital that young people speak up and have...
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