WINTER 2012 - Concordia University

Student News
Dr. Kim Perlak took 22 students to the Travis County Tax Office during Constitution Week to become volunteer Deputy Registrars. (Trey Buchanan and Dr. Kim Perlak
pictured with students during the campus Rock the Vote event.)
2012 marked the first year CTX opened its doors as
a mobile early voting location.
Music student incorporate live guitar music from the
civil rights movement for the Rock the Vote event.
During Rock the Vote event, 198 students registered
to vote.
said Perlak. “Before this, students
said they didn’t feel like part of
the political process, but music is
a powerful motivator for them.”
Dr. Perlak’s American Pop
Music class changed students’
perspectives on voting.
“I never would have voted if I
hadn’t taken this class. I was caught
up in my own life and wouldn’t
have thought about it. But this
music [about Civil Rights] made
me realize that so many people
couldn’t vote,” said Alix Chavez.
“And I now feel this obligation
“I never would have voted if I
hadn’t taken this class.”
to vote because they couldn’t.”
Concordia University Texas,
for the first time, opened its
doors as a mobile early voting
location for voters registered in
Travis County on October 23.
If Concordia had not served as a
polling location, many students
said they would not have voted.
“I don’t have my car here, so I
wouldn’t have voted,” said American
Pop Music student Holly Bolden.
This new perspective on the
election process continues to inspire
students to share this experience
and encourage others to vote.
“I registered my own parents to
vote during this process,” said
Chavez. “We all went to vote
together for the first time ever.”
Watch the video
www.concordia.edu/rockvote
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