It’s election season and Lyndon State has two organizations that are trying to gain the vote here on campus.
The College Republicans and the Students for Social Justice, formed in the spring of 2009 and the fall of 2009 respectively, both want to have their views respected throughout the community.
“What started as a trip to the University of Vermont in Burlington for a College Republicans meeting ended with the idea to have a branch at Lyndon,” LCR vice president Tyler Kittleman said.
Both Kittleman and SGA President John Kleinhans were elected to the executive board of the organization and wanted to create a Lyndon branch to represent the school.
This year, Brett Rubinate has taken the reigns as president of the LCR, while Kittleman holds the vice president position. Rubinate has clear goals for the Lyndon branch to achieve. Some of these include door-to-door campaigning for the current elections, sign waving, and having guest speakers from the political world come to talk about issues that pertain to the students.
“We have Dan Freilich coming on the 25th, and our goal is to have an open forum on the day before the elections, Nov. 1,” Rubinate said.
On the other end of the political spectrum, the Students for Social Justice, formerly known as Club Action, is starting up its projects to help the community.
“Last year Club Action had been putting out a bi-weekly newsletter that featured socioeconomic and political issues,” said club president Joe Pasquence.
The organization is still putting out the newsletters, but has other plans that included the shelter walk fundraiser that they participated in on Saturday.
“The idea of the newsletter is for people to become educated on politics. Through knowledge people gained unity,” Pasquence said.
The Students for Social Justice are also looking to get candidates to come and speak in order to have students more educated on politics.
While both clubs are favoring a specific political side, they share a common goal of educating people in politics.