Amen...
Posted on 11/14/2007 7:27:25 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Most at NYU say their vote has a price
By: Lily Quateman - Washington Square News
November 14, 2007 07:29 PM EST
Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.
That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.
Only 20 percent said they'd exchange their vote for an iPod touch.
But 66 percent said they'd forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they'd give up the right to vote forever for $1 million.
But they also overwhelmingly lauded the importance of voting.
Ninety percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting "very important" or "somewhat important"; only 10 percent said it was "not important."
Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference — including 70 percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for free tuition.
The class — "Foundations of Journalism," taught by journalism department chairwoman Brooke Kroeger — polled more than 3,000 undergraduates between Oct. 24 and 26 to assess student attitudes toward voting.
"The part that I find amazing is that so many folks think one vote can make a difference," Sociology Department Chairman Dalton Conley said. He added, "If we take them at their word, then perhaps they really think votes matter, and that's why someone might pay a year's tuition to buy theirs."
Sixty percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for tuition also described their families' income as upper-middle or high.
Their reasons for giving up their votes varied.
"At the moment, no candidate who truly represents my political beliefs has a chance of winning a presidential election," one male junior studying film and television at the Tisch School of the Arts wrote on the survey.
"It is very easy to convince myself that my vote is not essential," wrote a female CAS sophomore. "After all, I'm from New York, which will always be a blue state."
Other students wrote that they were disgusted by the thought.
"I would be reversing history — a lot of people fought so that every citizen could be enfranchised," said a female in her second year at the Stern School of Business.
One CAS junior went even further, writing that "anyone who'd sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported."
Amen...
Agreed-let’s take them up on it. We’re all better off.
I’ll pay for 2 to keep those a holes out of the voting booth. I’m in NYC all the time and I see and hear these imbeciles on the streets. Come to think of it I’ll pay for 5 .
Trying to get something for nothing. The majority in that age group doesn’t vote anyway.
If you did meet their price they’d stand on the street corner all day complaining about how they are “denied” the right to vote.
May I forget they’re my slightly younger peers.
Materialistic, disaffected little brats who would sell out the very freedom they never fought for just for a new toy. Yeah, you’ve earned it baby!
I am a student at NYU, and one of the maybe three conservatives. Last year, I mentioned the bias of the professors to fellow classmates. Everyone looked at me in shock and responded that they thought they were getting a very balanced and fair education. I laughed, told them they were idiots, and asked why the America Communist party just donated their history to NYU if the school was so “balanced”.
But, can you expect much more from trust-fund kids who have never worked, lived outside the city, or done anything for anybody.
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