USD Votes Events
One great way to get informed and critically engage with the issues that confront us today is to attend events on campus. Everyone is welcome to all of these events. (Registration is required for a few.)
Go! You might even get a cookie or some extra credit!
USD Votes: Get Registered, Get Informed
February 11, 4-7pm, Salomon Hall, Maher.
This is a drop-in event.
Get registered to vote.
Learn about the CA ballot propositions in the March ballot.
Learn about the 2020 presidential candidates.
Watch presidential primary returns come in from New Hampshire.
Join USD Votes and learn how to register voters.
USD Votes Meetings
2020 Kickoff Event: Tuesday, January 28, Warren Auditorium, MRH. 12:30-2pm.
Alcala Bazaar: Tuesday, Feb. 5.
After that, weekly Tuesday meetings in 253 KIPJ, 1:30-2:30.
Universal Basic Income: For and Against
Date and Time
- Wednesday, March 25, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Theater
Cost
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From the Democratic presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, to pilot projects in Stockton, Kenya, and elsewhere, the idea of a “Universal Basic Income” has never been more popular. The basic idea is simple: every adult citizen receives a cash grant from the government to spend in any way they choose. Proponents say a basic income has the potential to end poverty and reduce inequality, and that it will soon be indispensable for coping with the massive unemployment caused by rapid increases in automation and artificial intelligence. Critics argue that a basic income costs too much, that it crowds out more useful and narrowly-targeted welfare programs, and that it undermines the central value of work for individuals and society as a whole.
Join USD’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy on March 25 for a debate on this important and timely issue, featuring Annie Lowrey, writer for The Atlantic and author of Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World, and Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.
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Restoring Respect 9th Annual Conference April 8, 2020 with Keynote by Cindy McCain, #ActsOfCivility
Date and Time
- Wednesday, April 8, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Theatre
Cost
0
Details
Please plan on attending Restoring Respect's Ninth Annual Conference on Restoring Civility to Civic Dialogue April 8, 2020 at the University of San Diego 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Our keynote address will be given by Cindy McCain speaking about her and the McCain Institute’s #ActsofCivility initiative, launched earlier this year in memory of her late husband, Senator McCain. “Acts of Civility” will be the Conference theme for this year as we discourse rebuilding Civility during the coming contentious, polarized and uncivil 2020 election year.
Mrs. McCain will be interviewed about living the legacy of Senator McCain and his dedication to our being a civil nation. "Senator McCain didn’t always agree with his colleagues in Congress, but he always respected them. There was nothing he enjoyed more than debating the most pressing issues of the time on the floor of the Senate with his good friend, the late Senator Ted Kennedy, shaking hands at the end of their discussion, and then sharing lunch with one another as friends. Sadly, this type of civil engagement is all too rare lately. But we can do something to help reignite a spirit of civility." (Cindy McCain, 2019).
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Get Active! National Voter Registration Day
On September 24, student volunteers will be around campus with information on how YOU can register and vote in the 2020 elections.