Contributing Writer Patrick Houlihan emphasizes the importance of student activism and community involvement amidst encampments triggered by the Israel-Hamas war.
While it is easy to rally around personalities like Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, there are several issues that will affect people’s decision-making more than others.
This election year is the weirdest and potentially most consequential of our lives. As much as it is an exhausting rhetoric, it is important to vote for those who will best represent you, up and down the ballot. I believe this is the slate of candidates offered by the Democratic Party.
An opinion piece published in The Miami Student at the end of last semester advocated for students to not vote on campus and register to vote wherever they are from. Contributing Writer Patrick Houlihan argues the opposite.
In the 2020 election, on-campus voter turnout was the worst in the county, with an average voter turnout hardly over 20%. The worst precinct was Oxford 11 (Western campus), which had a voter turnout of less than 12%.