Nussle Campaign Updates

We had a really great story about us in the Times-Delphic today - we'll try to get it up on the website soon. We didn't end up getting much news media out to our first press conference, but we're quite optimistic about our next one. We did have to cancel a protest today, as we figured the several inches of snow and below 10 degrees weather just wasn't quite worth it.

But we're looking ahead to next week and organizing another press conference in which we get several stories from students that are facing much higher costs for college thanks to Nussle's cuts to student loans. We're also hoping to get other colleges in on the effort and make this a state-wide campaign to increase awareness. We already have a few other colleges expressing interest, and hopefully we'll be able to organize a state-wide response here very soon.

We're doing very well with our signatures on our petitions - we collected well over 300 from students on Monday and Tuesday from just standing out several places on campus and asking people as they passed by to class. I'm quite surprised we got so many considering most people are pretty hesitant to sign anything, much less slow down when late to class. But many students that aren't usually all that interested in politics have been very upset about the loan cuts and are very enthusiastic and supportive when we approach them. Thanks to our nine members who stood out in the cold to ask students to sign the petitions. We're still working on collecting many more from people that just didn't happen to pass by while we were out there, and I figure we'll get a few hundred more. And we're also hoping to get other college democrats organizations to start up petitions at their schools too.

That's all for now, check back soon.