{"id":5775,"date":"2010-10-19T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2010-10-19T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:20:30","slug":"students%e2%80%99-union-looks-to-get-the-vote-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/10\/students%e2%80%99-union-looks-to-get-the-vote-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Students\u2019 union looks to get the vote out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As municipal election fever heats up, the Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU) is encouraging students and the greater Brock community to vote.<\/p>\n<p>To raise awareness of the upcoming Oct. 25 elections, BUSU has launched a website for students \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/brockvotes.com\" target=\"_blank\">brockvotes.com<\/a> \u2014 and invited candidates to campus to pitch their platforms and answer questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Andrew\u2019s Ward Debate<\/strong>, 5 p.m.<br \/>\nTuesday, Oct. 19, Decew Dining Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thorold Mayoral Debate<\/strong>, 5 p.m.<br \/>\nThursday, Oct. 21, Thistle 256<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Catharines Mayoral Debate<\/strong>, 6 p.m.<br \/>\nThursday, Oct. 21, Thistle 256<\/p>\n<p>Students can submit questions for the candidates ahead of time online (brockvotes.com) in the \u201cSpeak Up\u201d section of their elections website.<\/p>\n<p>On election day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\" target=\"_blank\">BUSU<\/a> will have voting crews leaving every hour on the hour from the Schmon Tower Welcome Desk between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to accompany students to Mountainview Church to cast their ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is the first of three on-campus debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5776,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}