WPSU will air interviews on May 9 and 14 with Marc Friedenberg and Fred Keller — the candidates running in a special election to fill the vacated seat for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District. The special election will be held on May 21.
The upcoming mid-term elections have everyone speculating who will win. Jon Price, lecturer in history and political science and Division of Undergraduate Studies adviser at Penn State York , will share his predictions during a presentation, “The Price is Right?’ from noon to 1 p.m. Friday Nov. 2, in the Lee R. Glatfelter Library. The event is free and open to the public.
WPSU will air a series of interviews featuring the Democratic and Republican candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in three central Pennsylvania districts beginning Oct. 11.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs will host a pre-election panel from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Olmsted Building's Gallery Lounge on campus. The panelists will discuss topics related to immigration, leadership capacity, minimum wage and racial issues within policing. The discussion will be moderated by Anne Douds, lecturer in criminal justice.
Alumni members of the Penn State Alumni Association have two weeks left to vote in the Alumni Association's Alumni Council election, which runs through midnight, May 31. Ballot instructions and a link were emailed to each eligible voter on May 8. Elected alumni will represent the more than 557,000 Penn Staters by giving them a voice in the running of the Alumni Association.
The Penn State Beaver Student Government Association (SGA) has announced election results for officers for the 2012-13 academic year. All officers will be sophomores in the fall. Election results for class representatives will be announced prior to the start of the fall semester. The election results are as follows: Je Qa Powe, president; Dora Tweneboah, vice president; Angelique Matthews, secretary; and Jon Lach, treasurer. For information about the SGA, contact the Office of Student Affairs at dxt24@psu.edu or 724-773-3951.
"The American presidential election is no longer just an American event, it has become a global event." That statement framed the presentation by international scholar Matthias Maass at Penn State Harrisburg.
In the coming weeks, Penn State alumni will have the opportunity to determine their representation on two important University leadership entities -- the Penn State Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council of the Penn State Alumni Association.
With every presidential election comes a new class of college freshmen, many of whom will be voting for the first time. With that in mind, every four years Michael Berkman, professor of political science at Penn State, offers a first-year seminar, a general requirement for freshman students, focusing on the election. His goal is to acclimate young voters to the electoral process, get them engaged in voting and help them understand the meaning and importance behind that year's election.
Along with serving on a jury, it may be the most important thing a citizen can do: voting to choose the people who run our courts, schools, towns, counties, states, and nation. So why do a third of Americans fail to vote? The answer, says Penn State political scientist Eric Plutzer, may stem from habit: If people don't start voting as young adults, they may never get comfortable doing so.
