CLEMSON, SC - The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition will stop at Clemson University on the Voter Education Tour for Jobs, Peace and Justice at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in the Hendrix Student Center (pictured) ballrooms.
CLEMSON, SC - The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition will stop at Clemson University on the Voter Education Tour for Jobs, Peace and Justice at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in the Hendrix Student Center (pictured) ballrooms.
The tour will take Jackson to 12 cities around the state to encourage people to study the issues that are important to them and to motivate them to vote. People can register to vote at the event, which is free and open to the public.
"Voter education and empowerment tours such as this one being sponsored by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition are wonderful opportunities for youth and others to not only hear the importance of voting, but also to have an opportunity to register for their voice to be heard,” said Kenyatta Shamburger, director of multicultural programs and services in the Gantt Intercultural Center. “Clemson University students and others are being afforded a wonderful opportunity to hear from Rev. Jackson, who has been actively involved in a social and political movement that seeks to ensure that all persons exercise their right to vote and be heard.”
Jackson’s visit to Clemson is sponsored by the Gantt Intercultural Center, the Omicron Phi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the Chi Zeta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Clemson University is taking advantage of South Carolina "First in the South" presidential primary state status by offering a class on the 2008 presidential campaign.
With the Republican primary Jan. 19 and the Democratic primary Jan. 29, students and community members have an opportunity to study the presidential campaign process from start to finish through the provost-sponsored seminar this semester.
The course is designed to bring candidates, pollsters, workers and national experts to campus to examine the presidential election of 2008. The classes include an introduction to the South Carolina primary, how candidates decide to run, campaign finance and candidate image. Various state and national campaign officials and experts are scheduled to participate.
The class started, Tuesday, Aug. 28. It will meet each Tuesday throughout the semester in the Strom Thurmond Institute. David Woodard, Strom Thurmond professor of political science, and Joseph Stewart, political science department chairman, will team-teach the course.
The class is free to members of the community and will be available to Clemson students across campus. Interested participants may contact the department of political science (656-3234) for more information.
The provost seminar began in spring 2002 to offer learning opportunities for the campus and community members following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. That first seminar studied events leading to 9/11, the involvement of extremist beliefs and discussion on who is to blame and how the United States can protect itself in the future. Seminars since then have covered the politics of radical religion and spreading democracy to countries around the world.