[Sosfbay-discuss] Open the Debates Op-Ed at Berkeley

[Edward]

Yesterday, a handful of student groups co-sponsored "The Great Debate" featuring representatives from the Cal Berkeley Democrats and the Berkeley College Republicans. When I found out about this event over two weeks ago, I immediately contacted the Students for Ralph Nader, Cal Libertarians, and Students for Ron Paul to collectively demand that the debate includes third parties. The debate co-sponsors denied our request but admired our "audacity" to ask in the first place. I found out last week that all four Executive Board members of our student government were upset that debate sponsors denied our request before consulting them (our student government also co-sponsored the event).

Two days ago, I received a call from The Daily Californian, which gets about 42,000 readers per day, about running an Op-Ed about third party exclusion from debates.

This morning, the following was published in the print and online versions of the Daily Cal.
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103020/open_the_debates_cease_the_exclusion

There are also articles in today's issue about the actual debate last night (http://www.dailycal.org/article/103038/students_create_their_own_presidential_debate) and our 7-week voter registration drive (http://www.dailycal.org/article/103033/uc_berkeley_vying_for_new_voters)



      
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