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Getting Out the Vote Every two years, Occidental students earn a semester’s worth of credit by working on political campaigns in battleground states through the Campaign Semester program. “This is an awesome opportunity to become involved in the process that you study in the classroom,” explains Madeline Scholtz, a politics major from Denver. “For 10 weeks, you get a chance to completely immerse yourself in campaign life. After the election, you get to reflect on your experience and analyze the results of the elections all across the country. You get both the real-world experience out in the field and the academic component back on campus.”
Madeline Scholtz, left, and Koyote Fee canvass a neighborhood in Apple Valley, Minnesota, on behalf of a campaign for the U.S. Senate.
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