Imagine the outrage in certain segments of the Right--Rush Limbaugh, Fox Noise, the WSJ editorial page--if they learned that the administration and faculty of a university were not only pressuring their students to register to vote, but that they were leaning on them to register to vote from their campus address in a swing state. Imagine the charges about "tenured radicals" and "liberal indoctrination" that would ensue if it were learned that professors, with the administration's apparent complicity, were offering students extra-credit for registering and voting. And imagine the calls for investigations that would rain down from on high at the news that students were being encouraged, nay pressured, to vote for a particular candidate. Imagine the protests if the University's chancellor sent out a mass email proclaiming that
"Our 11,000 students and 4,000 faculty and staff could cause our school to become known as the university that elected a president!"
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