With an attendance of 50 new volunteers, UConnPIRG kicked off our campaigns for the semester. Students are excited and ready to gear up the campaigns for the semester.
Some goals and highlights from the different campaign groups include: Goals for the Hunger and Homelesness project group include raising over 20,000 this year for local shelters and organizing weekly volunteering events at local shelters and kitchens in CT. The New Voters Project Group had quite the turnout and is planning on registering 2,000 or more students to vote this semester. Registration drives will be held at all major events on campus and will be followed by a Get-Out-The-Vote drive right before the election this November. The Campus Climate Challenge group has lofty ambitions for the year. We hope to rally student and administrative support in order to get a university commitment to upgrade the efficiency of one building on campus. Our Textbook Affordability group is also off the ground. Students will be contacting and meeting with faculty in the upcoming week in order to gather administrative support to monitor a law passed by UConnPIRG last semester. The law is one of the first of its kind in the country and takes critical first steps towards making textbooks more affordable for students.
