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• Promote voter education/registration on campus
• Campaign for, endorse, and promote a candidate or a legislative change or political cause in the
name of their own student group.
• Use their address on the college’s website to provide hyperlinks to nonpartisan organizations and
offices (e.g. voter registration), their political party’s organizational websites, and all of the
legally qualified candidates for any given public office in their party who have a web presence
• Conduct opinion polls to gauge community sentiment
• Publish editorials in the student newspaper (The Record) which oppose or endorse specific
legislation and/or candidates and must state clearly that the views expressed reflect those of the
student editors and not of the college
• Make use of the group’s own budget to pursue the goals permitted above
What are student groups not permitted to do:
• Solicit donations for a candidate, sell campaign paraphernalia, or make direct monetary contributions to a particular campaign
• Violate the college’s posting policy
• Campaign for, endorse, or otherwise promote a candidate in the name of Wheaton College
• Violate or operate outside the college’s scheduling policy and procedures
• Make use of the college’s resources for a campaign or political party (such as utilizing mailing
lists, office space, telephones, college vehicles and copy machines free of charge)
• Permit use of college’s resources by non-Wheaton students for politically related activities
Social and Cultural Advocacy Programs:
Officially recognized student groups are encouraged to promote college-wide discourse that integrates biblical and theological reflection and practice regarding social and cultural advocacy issues (such as race, ethnicity, public health, justice, politics, economics, sexuality, morality, war, peace, and international relations).
Individual students interested in coordinating campus programs on social and cultural advocacy must obtain sponsorship and approval from the appropriate student club or organization president/chair and the advisor of the officially recognized student group. Sponsorship means that the organization’s leadership is active in helping to plan the event.
Program efforts should be planned in light of Wheaton College’s evangelical Christian liberal arts identity and in consonance with the student organization’s mission and the Wheaton College Community Covenant. Programs must follow the normative event approval process (see “Room Reservations and Campus Scheduling”)
The following guidelines are directive:
• Advocacy programs should be designed in collaboration with a faculty or student development professional staff mentor to encourage the development of program content that is chosen with care and intentionality (i.e., the structure of the interaction, applied theology, and moral implications) to ensure constructive outcomes congruent with the College’s mission, which is to serve Jesus Christ and advance His Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
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