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The Great Works Symposium will host a session of informative project presentations as part of the GWS class, “The Election,” on Thursday, December 4, 2008 from 6 to 9 p.m., sixth floor, MacAlister Hall (33rd and Chestnut Streets).

The event will be conducted in the style of a poster session with multiple booths showcasing each group’s project from the course. These projects include a documentary on Philadelphia’s elector in the Electoral College, board game simulations of the campaign trail, educational Web sites and a civics/social studies teaching module, among others.

All members of the Drexel community are welcome to attend to learn more about the recent presidential election as well as the political process.

For more information, email kde25@drexel.edu.

This year, there was a record student turnout in Drexel’s voting district. Drexel Votes 2008 and the Office of Government and Community Relations have announced that 1,972 students cast ballots at Van Rensselaer Hall (33rd Street and Powelton Avenue) on Election Day. On-campus voter turn-out exceeded 70 percent of the 2,800 students registered to vote at that location.

Of the votes cast on-campus, Barack Obama received 77 percent and John McCain 22 percent. The remaining one percent was divided among Ralph Nader, Bob Barr and write-in candidates.

National Public Radio reports that excluding provisional ballots 62.5 percent of the nation’s registered voters actually voted, putting Drexel students ahead of the national voting average. Lowell Webb, judge of elections at the on-campus polling place, was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer saying that student voter turn out surpassed that of the 2004 presidential election at 6:30 p.m. with an hour-and-a-half until closing and hundreds of students still waiting in line.

For more information, email Sean Miller at sam772@drexel.edu.

After you vote, join us on Tuesday, November 4 starting at 8 p.m. in the Great Court, Main Building (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

The event will go on until all votes are counted and America’s next president is chosen. There will be great food, games and good conversation along with televisions tuned in to the election.

For more information, contact Marisa McStravick at mem82@drexel.edu.

Don’t forget…Tuesday, November 4 is Election Day. Your voice has never been louder!

For students living on campus, the polling location is Van Rensselaer Hall at 3320 Powelton Avenue–that’s for Philadelphia’s 24th Ward, 10th Division (24-10). This is a permanent change in the polling location for the registered voters living inside of 24-10.

Live off campus? Check out www.voteforchange.com or www.seventy.org to find your polling place.

Doors open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. If you’re in line by 8 p.m. you’ll be allowed to vote, no matter how long it takes. Be sure to bring a student ID, license, or voter registration card.

Feel free to wear any McCain or Obama clothing or pins, but no electioneering–you can’t go around telling people who they should vote for or ask people who they are voting for. Basically, use common courtesy and respect those with opposing views!

If you have any further questions, please contact Drexel’s Office of Government and Community Relations at 215.895.2109.