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Show P 72 phones for registration through Friday, will be contacted by phone, given voting information and encouraged to register. Twenty-five phones have been put up in the Union Den with the help of organizational and individual in-dividual volunteers, P 72 wil be telephoning students in Salt Lake Participation 72 is calling you-literally. you-literally. After months of matching names, numbers and addresses, P'72 has a final list of students attending at-tending the University this year who have not registered. Sometime between now and the last day of county registration, these students 0;J County, Monday through Friday, until all have been reached. Collecting the Social Security numbers from the Registrars Office of all University students from either spring, summer and autumn quarters, P72 matched the student Social Security numbers against the Salt Lake County voter registration list. P 72 then had a list of University students who were unregistered. With the new and smaller list, they placed these students in their appropriate districts according to the Moss tapes, which are of addresses. "There'll be some unregistered students who won't get called " stated computer programmer for P72 Scott Smith. "The Moss tapes have only the more major streets of the county. So if a student stu-dent lives on a really obscure street we won't have his address and name." Being able to identify registered students in the last year and a half, P 72 was also able to remove 2,300 names from the calling list. The computer program has made the system extremely efficient and effective, according to Smith. Volunteers telephoning have three distinct duties. They are to give registration dates Oct. 14, 17, 31 -tell students that they can reg- I Participation 72 volunteer encourages student to rem, Election Day. Final neighborhood registration dates atij, and 31. ister any day in the Metropolitan Hall, 4th So. and 2nd East in the basement in the County Clerk's Office and finally ask if the students have any legal problems in regard to voting. If they do have problems, their names are taken and referred to the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) Legal Services. "We can do now., encourage studentsto,, calling them personal,'', least getting to themsor., I may be able to get rw " out," said Parties-chairman Parties-chairman Steve Jofe have 10,000 names call. They also are in nes: e volunteers. |