![]() While some students felt that the Vote 100 initiative was successful in increasing student voter registration, others believed its impact would be felt most strongly on certain parts of the campus population. encouraging people to get out to the polls,” said Caleb Visser ’20, the campus and community affairs chair for the Undergraduate Student Government and an organizer of the watch party. The watch party was part of Princeton’s Vote 100 initiative, a campaign that worked to encourage 100 percent of the undergraduate student body to “engage civically” in the 2018 election. “It was cool to watch people uniting over. She was also feeling positive about how civic engagement was “more of a subject of discussion on campus” than it had been in 2016. “I feel like we’re moving in the right direction again,” she said, referring to the Democrats winning control of the House. Watching MSNBC three floors below, New Zealand native TJ Smith ’20 said her mood was better than it was during the 2016 elections. “That works out fine because it gives the president a scapegoat for when he doesn’t get his agenda through.” “I came in here expecting to lose the House,” he said. More upbeat was Akhil Rajasekar ’21, from Bethel Park, Pa, who followed the election on Fox News on Whig’s top floor. “ nervous,” he said, “because the results are still too close to call.” Some went back and forth.ĭavid Basili ’21 of San Francisco was working on his computer science homework at about 10 p.m. On the third floor, a handful of students had chosen to watch Fox News, while in the basement, a group of students sat on armchairs watching MSNBC.Īs the evening progressed, some students were nervous. In the Senate Chamber on the second floor, CNN was displayed across four large screens in front of dozens of students munching on pizza and chips on the floor or in chairs strewn across the room. The setup of the event gave students the ability to choose their preferred news network and the type of environment they were in: quiet, hectic, or somewhere in between. The rooms of Whig Hall were draped in red-and-blue streamers Tuesday night as more than 100 students gathered to follow the results of the midterm elections. Courtesy the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students
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