Election Day '08

By: Tracey A. Casseus

Ithaca College was brimming with several Election Day events designed to help members of the campus community vote, celebrate the election, and watch the results on a day destined to be in the history books.

Throughout the day,9 a.m.–5 p.m, school sponsered Voter Vans shuttled students to and from the Ithaca College Circle Apartments Community polling place.

To get students really into the voting spirit there was a "Parade to the Polls" that took place at around 12:15 p.m. starting at Free Speech Rock infront of Campus Center and ending at the Circle Apartments Community center. The student group Fifes and Drums of Ithaca, along with President Tom Rochon, led voters through the academic quad to get voters excited about going to the polls.


At 4 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery, associate professor and chair of the Department of Strategic Communications, Steven Seidman, lead a discussion on political marketing and the 2008 presidential election entitled "Political Marketing and the 2008 Campaign." Seidman is the author of “Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns around the World and through History.”

The Tuesday Salon is a Handwerker Gallery program aimed at providing students, faculty, staff and members of the local community with a forum outside of the classroom for intellectual discussion and debate.

To cap the festivities there was an "Election Results Viewing Party" from 9 p.m.– Midnight held at IC Square in Campus Center. There all was welcomes to watch the election results on CNN, ICTV, and WICB