So, what was the purpose of the survey? Well it is easy to understand based on the questions of the survey that it was a questionnaire specifically designed to understand, see and analyze political behavior of students in Baruch College. Now I do have a comparative advantage in doing the analysis for this survey because, I also belong to the pool that is being surveyed. As being a student in Baruch College there are some of the things that I have knowledge of and take for given assumptions. Some of the examples of those things include: current trends of the whole student body – both in social and privet senses, students' current political stands and participation, also general trust in government, how popular channels and programs that are being watched by the students encourage or discourage students to be politically active.
[...] Considering the fact that Baruch is a commuter school, I believe that my active campus participation allows for a higher then average degree of student interactions. I can safely say that on average during the duration of semester I engage in some sort of discussion with about 200-300 undergraduate attendees. This number includes my Fraternity members, other fraternity members, our sister sorority members, other sorority members, the rest of Greek life on campus, other clubs that I am a part of like Baruch Paintball Club, and a general pool of students that I come in contact with in my classes, socializing outside of school, over coffee, or doing a group projects. [...]
[...] On the contrary, my active participation in student life organizations creates still limited but better possibilities for an open socialization with other Baruch students. Mandatory meetings that are organized once every week for my fraternity is one example. Meetings and mixers with other fraternities and sororities not only create the same possibilities, but also takes social dynamics of Baruch students outside of campus and into a local bars or any other stress free environment that allows for a healthy stress free conversation. [...]
[...] Second think is that even if we have all this activities and a busy New York life if we wanted to we would find time to participate in some sort of political behavior. This brings us to the second factor that for the most part the students of Baruch College are simply disconnected from anything politics. Recently, college students' channels like MTV and VH1 have started the initiatives on making students participate in the most important of all political behaviors. For example MTV's Rock the Vote campaign. Also VH1's Get Out and Vote advertisements. I think these initiatives are the most important judging from [...]
[...] Second, it is considered that the strongest factor of political behavior is person's previous political behavior. Then number of students who participated in 2004 presidential elections are most likely to participate in 2008, and vice versa, those who did not participate is highly likely to abstain from casting a ballot in 2008. This number of people who participated in 2004 has a higher chance if going down comparing to those who will participate in 2008 due to a growing distrust in our government, and a growing disconnect of students from any political behavior. [...]
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