Students make calls for Corzine
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?