CONWAY — The University of Central Arkansas will host the first "ONE Student/ONE Vote" event to discuss ways to power the 2008 election and rally presidential candidates around issues such as extreme poverty and global disease.
The event, which will take place at 1:30 p.m. today in the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center at UCA, is open to the public.
John Harris, editor-in-chief of Politico, will moderate the conversation. Panel members include UCA president Lu Hardin, author and national security expert Jeffrey Laurenti of The Century Foundation, UCA professors and students. Other college students from around the nation will provide questions for the panel using text-messaging capabilities.
One Student/One Vote is a series of campus conversationsto energize, inform and activate young voters in the upcoming 2008 election. It is part of "ONE Vote '08: Saving Lives, Securing our Future," a nonpartisan campaign to get politicians to commit to solving extreme poverty and improving global health. ONE is a coalition of millions of people and more than 150 of the nation's leading relief, humanitarian and advocacy organizations. For more information visit www.one.org.
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