CPU Newsletter

September 17, 2006

Columbia Political Union Weekly Update, 9.18-9.23

COLUMBIA POLITICAL UNION WEEKLY UPDATE 9.18-9.23

1. CPU Presents: "A Nation of Immigrants No More?" Featuring Michele Wucker, author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
September 20, Hamilton 503, 8:00 PM

2. CPU Deputy Applications

3. Columbia Political Review Meet & Greet/ Article Pitches Due
September 18, Hamilton 602, 8:30 PM

4. CPU Voter Registration Drive
September 27 & 28, College Walk, volunteers needed!
http://cupolitics.org/links/vote.html

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1. CPU Presents: Michele Wucker, "A Nation of Immigrants No More?"
September 20, Wednesday, 8 PM, Hamilton 503
co-sponsored with the College Democrats

Michele Wucker is author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong

When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola. Wucker is co-director of the Immigrant Voting Project and Director of the Program on Citizenship & Security. She specializes in immigration and assimilation, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean, and international finance and debt crisis. She is a graduate of Rice University and of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

For more information, please visit www.wucker.com.

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2. CPU Deputy Applications are due soon!
Please visit http://cupolitics.org/about/openpositions.html for a description of our open positions. E-mail the individual contacts for information on applying and due dates.

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3. Columbia Political Review Meet & Greet and Article Pitches

The Columbia Political Review's first meeting of the year will be this Monday night (September 18) at 8:30pm in Hamilton 602 . There will be pizza, and we would love to see you there. Both pitches for our October issue and board applications are due by e-mail on Tuesday (September 19) at midnight. The meeting is a great time to ask questions about this. See below for links to the forms. See you Monday.

Pitch Form:
Due Tuesday, September 19 at Midnight.
http://www.columbiapoliticalreview.com/about/forms/September06/cpr_pitch_form.pdf

Descriptions of Open Board Positions:
Paragraph-long applications due Tuesday, September 19 at Midnight.
http://www.columbiapoliticalreview.com/about/forms/September06/cpr_open_positions.pdf

**Both pitches and applications should be e-mailed to
cpureview@columbia.edu.

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4. CPU Voter Registration Drive
September 27 & 28 [dates have changed], College Walk

Not registered? Come fill out or pick up registration forms on College Walk all day on Wednesday September 27 and Thursday September 28. You can register either in New York or your home state.

Too busy to stop by the table?
Find your state on this chart and request registration forms or an absentee ballot:
http://cupolitics.org/links/vote.html

Volunteers needed to staff the table from 9-5 on the 27th and the 28th. Please email ashearman@cupolitics.org if you'd like to help.

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