Event Highlight
Lectures & Events
January 25, 2010
Asian Film Series: "Twilight Samurai"
8 pm Cole Cinema
January 28, 2010
"Defense Acquisition Issues in the Obama Administration" by Jacques Gansler
5 pm Cole Cinema
March 1, 2010
Asian Film Series: "Tuya's Marriage"
8 pm Cole Cinema
March 23 - 26, 2010
"EnGendering Political Change"
Annual Women, Gender, and Sexuality Colloquium
All events in Cole Cinema
April 1, 2010
"Obama's War: al Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Pakistan" by Bruce Riedel (Brookings Institution)
6 pm Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary's Hall
April 6, 2010
"Ramchand Pakistani"
8 pm Cole Cinema
April 7, 2010
"China's March Toward the Market" by James Dorn (Cato Institute)
4:45 pm Cole Cinema
April 8, 2010
"Riding the Tiger: How the Communist Party Has Stayed in Charge of China" by John Pomfret (Washington Post)
8 pm Daugherty-Palmer Commons
April 13, 2010
"Scaling the New Great Wall: International Broadcasting to East Asia's Closed Societies" by Sarah Jackson-Han (Radio Free Asia)
4:30 pm Cole Cinema
April 16, 2010
Annual Bradlee Lecture on Journalism
"How to Make the 'Long War' Shorter: Some Thoughts from a Journalist's Notebook" by David Ignatius (Washington Post)
8 pm Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary's Hall
April 20-21, 2010
Patuxent Defense Forum
9 am – 4 pm Cole Cinema
April 26, 2010
2010 Maryland Legislative Wrap-Up
Annual Discussion of the Highlights of the Session in Annapolis
with Delegates Bohanan, O'Donnell, and Wood
3:30 pm Glendening Annex
Program Highlight
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Student Spotlight
St. Mary's Votes!
Since its inception in 2004, the club has registered over 850 young people to vote in State and National elections. In 2008, the club expanded its role in civic engagement to include working as election and poll judges during primary and general elections.
St. Mary's Votes!
Registration Count
| New Voter Applications | Absentee Ballot Request |
| 59 |
226 |
Count Updated October 28, 2008
Fall 2008
As the 2008 Presidential Elections quickly approaches, St. Mary's Votes! is working hard to register as many new voters as possible. The team plans to set up booths during lunch and dinners at the Campus Center, tables at Giant Food in California, Maryland, perform dorm storms, and participate in numerous events across campus in order to make thier mission known.
This year the team has also taken their roll in civic engagement to a new level. Members of the team will soon begin training to work as election judges and poll workers during the elections. If you would like to volunteer your time to work at the polls, please contact Sam Birnbaum for more information.
If you have a completed copy of the voter registration or absentee ballot request you can drop it off to Kent Hall 103 and we will mail them for you.
To learn more about registering to vote in Maryland, visit the State Board of Elections.
Spring 2008
In the spring of 2008, the St. Mary's Votes team worked to register approximately 200 students for the Presidential Primary Election in February. The club set up booths in the Campus Center during lunch and dinners, performed dorm storms, and held separate events and meetings to encourage students to register to vote.
On top of registering students for vote, the students involved in the club also worked at the polls during the primary elections. Ten students from the St. Mary's Votes! team were trained by the St. Mary's County Board of Elections to work during the primary election.
2006
The 26th Amendment to the Constitution allowed eighteen-year olds the right to vote. However, only about half of the 23.9 Americans under the age of 24 actually bother to register and less than a third of those registered actually vote. The St. Mary's Votes! project is a local initiative to get St. Mary's College of Maryland students and young people across the state to vote in primary and general elections.
Led by four students: Rahul Bhanot ('07 Columbia, MD), Julian Brunner ('07 Takoma Park), Kerry Crawford ('07 Towson, MD), and Eric Hoffman ('08 Baltimore, MD), St. Mary's Votes 2006! registered more than 200 St. Mary's College of Maryland students prior to the 2006 elections. Fall events included political and cultural activities designed to get students to register to vote and then to the polls on the primary and general election days.
In 2004 The St. Mary's Votes! project registered 420 young people (18-24 years old) to vote before the 2004 presidential elections. The project focused its attention on getting the 1900 students at St. Mary's College of Maryland to register and to the polls to cast ballots. A fall 2004 poll of St. Mary's College students found political involvement on the rise.
The newly registered students came from 21 of Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City. As Co-Director Yaron Miller (Baltimore, MD '05) has noted, "Only good things can happen for students when we use our voice and ballot." Ramtin Arabluoei ('05, Germantown, MD) who is also a co-director of the voter registration drive added, "St. Mary's students have an obligation to stand up and be counted."
St. Mary's Votes! sponsored cultural events that highlighted the importance of voting and helped get students to the polls on election day.
