Elections 2012: What's at Stake for California?

October 12, 2012

Monday, October 22

Panel discussion 7:30-9:30 pm

Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room

UC Santa Cruz

National and state elections will be on November 6, 2012.  Join us to learn more about the implications of these elections for the state of California.

Panelists

  • John Laird, California Secretary of Natural Resources and former member of the State Assembly 27th district (Stevenson '72, Politics) 

  • Charles Freedman, KSCO Drive Time Radio Show Host (Cowell '79, Politics) 

  • Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication and Political Science, Stanford University 

  • Nwadiuto (DT) Amajoyi, Student Union Assembly Chair, Psychology and Literature (double major), College Nine, UCSC

Moderator

Eva Bertram, Associate Professor of Politics and UCDC Campus Director, UCSC

At 6 pm, also in the Multipurpose Room, the final presidential debate will be shown on a big screen. Watch the debate and stay for the panel discussion at 7:30 pm.

Parking attendants will be selling permits in lot 164 from 4:30-8 pm. Please click here for a parking map.

* This forum is sponsored by the Division of Social Sciences, Colleges Nine and Ten, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, the Office of Government Relations, and the Politics Department. Social Sciences department Chairs Kent Eaton (Politics) and Jonathan Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies) and Provost of Colleges Nine and Ten Helen Shapiro (Sociology) helped organize this forum.

Questions? Contact Andrea Cohen or Jessica Lawrence via email.

Register to vote (if you are not already registered) by 5 pm on Monday, October 22. Click this link.