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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Election night watch party aimed at students
  

Mar 4, 2008  
From staff reports   

FOX and The Palestra.com -- an online news source aimed at college students -- are hoping to draw an evening crowd to Baker Center as well. The pair will host a student-oriented election watch party beginning at 5 p.m. today.

There will be large-screen TVs tuned to FOX election coverage, live music by the Columbus band Smalltown Sleeper, a DJ, giveaways, information on the general election/candidates and free food. The event will be streamed live on FOXNews.com, FaceBook.com and ThePalestra.com.

Through a network of on-campus reporters (including Ohio University students Lynn Walsh, Greg Glasser and Megan Weasel), The Palestra -- Greek for "a public place for training and practice" -- collects, produces, packages and distributes audio and video content about college life.

"People seem to be really interested in voting there," Dawn Durkot, a senior producer with The Palestra, said of what prompted the Ohio University event. "The purpose is to get students interested in the election and the vote. Throughout the course of the evening, we're hoping to draw about 700 students."

 


 


Related Links
No debate: National TV exposure a blast http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/07-08/March/379.cfm 
  
  

Published: Mar 4, 2008 2:23 PM  



Tiffany Wilson, Geraldo Rivera
 
Tiffany Wilson from The Palestra.com spoke with FOX News anchor Geraldo Rivera after the Tuesday morning broadcast from Baker University Center.  


 

 


Photographer Rick Fatica  





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