Political junkies, get ready for your fix.
The next three days will be packed with performances and speakers telling students to vote — and who deserves the student vote.
Feminist and author Gloria Steinem will speak Wednesday night. Then Thursday, former presidential candidate Bill Bradley and Xander Patterson, co-chair of the Pacific Green Party, are scheduled to speak on campus about the issues surrounding the November election.
On Friday, Everclear will rock the EMU Amphitheater in a free show to promote student voting. Sen. Ron Wyden will also speak at the event.
Steinem, the co-founder and contributing editor of Ms. Magazine, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the EMU Ballroom.
She has been touring college campuses throughout the fall, but Oregon is especially important to her because the state could go either way in this year’s presidential election.
Maureen Britell, executive director of Voters For Choice, said Steinem will stress both the importance of voting for Gore and her belief that a vote for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader is just a vote for Republican candidate George W. Bush.

Steinem is also the president of Voters For Choice, a national group supporting Vice President Al Gore in the election specifically because Gore is pro-choice. The next president will be appointing two to four justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Gore has said he would appoint justices who are pro-choice.
On Thursday afternoon, Bradley is scheduled to appear in the EMU Amphitheater to promote voter participation in the November election. Bradley ran against Gore in the Democratic primary and gained the endorsement of Gov. John Kitzhaber before dropping out of the race.
Jed McGuire, co-chair for College Democrats, said Bradley is scheduled to speak sometime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., but the time hasn’t been confirmed.
“There’s a possibility he might not come at all because of conflicts with other speaking arrangements,” McGuire said.
If Bradley can’t make it Thursday, McGuire said he hopes the former New Jersey senator will speak at the “Get Out and Vote Tour” stop on Friday. That event will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the EMU Amphitheater, and will feature speeches from Sen. Ron Wyden and Everclear frontman Art Alexakis, as well as a free performance in the amphitheater by the band.

McGuire added that the College Democrats are working to reschedule an appearance by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, possibly for Oct. 31 or Nov. 1. Jackson canceled an engagement earlier this month so he could stand on the picket lines with striking transit workers in Los Angeles.
But before the band takes the stage on Friday, Patterson will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 175 at the Knight Law School. Besides being co-chair of the Pacific Green Party — the local chapter of the national Green Party — Patterson is also the treasurer for Victory 2000, a group working to support the Nader campaign.
Holly Harris, co-director of Land, Air, Water, the law society sponsoring the event, said Patterson will give a brief introduction and then field questions from the audience.
Land, Air, Water also brought Kathleen McGinty, environmental advisor for Gore, to campus in September for a similar town hall meeting. At that time, the group gave an open invitation to the Nader and Bush campaigns to also send representatives. So far, Harris said, the Bush campaign has not responded to the invitation.