November 30, 2007
Political Campaigns Get Personal With Students
Credit-card companies, apartment complexes, you name it. College students are constantly barraged with unsolicited advertisements.
But on Election Day in 2006, some students at the University of Texas at Austin were prodded by startlingly personal calls: "Today someone our age is going to die in Iraq. Today you will also walk or drive by your precinct polling location at least twice on the way to and from class. If you choose not to vote, their blood may as well be on your
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