Three students volunteered for the gubernatorial campaign of Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) Saturday, spending four hours in a Hamilton satellite office making phone calls in support of their candidate.
Their work was a part of both the College Democrats' effort to assist the Corzine campaign and the Princeton in the Nation's Service (PINS) program taking place this month.
"We found it a lot of fun," said Willie Poor '07, volunteer coordinator for the College Democrats and a former Daily Princetonian photography editor.
Though the volunteers were "basically glorified answering machines," Poor said the afternoon was "a blast."
"Most of them were recent college grads digging their heels into the grassroots effort," he said.
The opportunity is considered a part of PINS, an initiative designed to increase University student involvement in community service activities.
"We thought you couldn't do any partisan activity for PINS, but that turned out not to be true," Poor said, adding that the College Democrats plan to continue assisting the Corzine campaign, with or without PINS.
Stephanie Burset '09, one of the students who volunteered Saturday, said she was initially worried that the volunteer work would amount to tedium.
"I was like, 'four hours of phone calls? What am I doing?' " Burset said. "But the time went very fast. We had a good time."
Poor described brisk activity in the office, with a constant stream of campaign volunteers coming in and out. Some were placing phone calls; others were putting up posters or going door-to-door.
The students spent four hours placing "ID calls," intended to identify undecided voters.
The campaign uses the calls to determine whom to focus on in the next round of "persuasion calls."
The student volunteers made calls from a list of registered Independents or "weaker Democrats" who had not voted in every election, Poor said.
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