Live Blogging from UPenn OSOV event.

Over at our brand new ONE Campus Challenge Blog Weldon Kennedy is live blogging the UPenn ONE Student | ONE Vote event.

Picture This

Every week, we take the best photo from the ONE Campus Challenge and toss it up on the ONE Blog. But this week, we raised the stakes and made the “photo of the week” worth 10 times more points. As a result we got some great submissions and we need your help deciding the winner.

Go here to vote for this week’s ONE Campus Challenge photo of the week.

ONE Trails Obama to MO!

The Obama rally at Union Station in St. Louis, MO, went great on Saturday! 7 ONE Webster students went in ONE shirts and ONE Webster students Alex Cruz and Ellie Curran were interviewed by Fox Channel 2. I managed to work my way to the barrier by the side stage to band Representative Clay and Representative Carnahan. After the rally we caught up with Obama, but he said he already had a ONE band, so ONE Webster member Mark Albrecht gave him his T-shirt.

Two of our members, Sandra Lemenaite and her friend, arrived early and were packed into the very front of the crowd behind the barrier directly in front of the stage. I passed their T-shirts through the crowd to them. Afterwards, Sandra told me that they were packed in so tight that they had to get help from the people around them to slip the shirts over their jackets. One lady who helped them happened to be a ONE member and showed Sandra her ONE band.

The atmosphere there was charged with enthusiasm for the next election. We can’t wait for the next presidential candidate to come to town. Extreme poverty must be an issue in the 2008 election!

-Nick Stevens, OCC Regional Outreach Ambassador, co-chairman of ONE Saint Louis, and President of ONE Webster

ONE Student ONE Vote Series Launches in Arkansas Today

ONE, the newspaper the Politico, the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washing are teaming up to launch the national “ONE Student | ONE Vote” today, an unprecedented initiative to motivate students to become politically active global citizens. Right now, ONE’s Kimberly Cadena, Chandler Smith, Sheena Arora and Erin Eagan are on the ground in Arkansas to help the already strong crew down there pull off the first ONE Student | ONE Vote event.

Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of the Politico, will moderate the conversation at the 1:30 p.m. ONE Student ONE Vote forum. Panel members include UCA President Lu Hardin; author and national security expert Jeffrey Laurenti with the Century Foundation; Dr. Elaine Fox, a professor with great knowledge of Central America and the needs in that region; UCA students and others. Students will provide questions for the panel beforehand as well as throughout the event.

Next ONE Student ONE Vote events:

University of Pennsylvania on November 1
University of Washington on November 8.

OCC TV

Announcing the launch of OCC TV, starring VJs Erin Eegan and Weldon Kennedy. As long as it gets picked up by the OCC station- I think you can expect to see more;)

Pilot Episode:

Episode 2:

Collegiate ONE Dogs

Submitted in the ONE Campus Challenge.

Dylan from Hoffstra U:

An an unnamed dog from Boston U:

Good for 75 points each.

I Never Have This Much Fun Waiting For A Bus…

Just before boarding the bus to their October 17 Global Day of Action Against Poverty event, the students at Brandeis decided to take a group shot - and it turned out just fantastic enough to win this week’s ONE Campus Challenge photo of the week.

Check out the 1,000-point photo and the competition it beat from Duke, Rutgers and and Campbellsville University.

Rutgers woman struts stuff with hunger-stat sign:

Duke’s hunger map:

Campbellsville kitty:

More From MoreHead U.

Students at Morehead State University created a commercial and posted it on their school’s website about the ONE Campus Challenge.

BU Nets Weekly Photo Prize

The votes are in!

Boston University has won the best weekly photo with a snapshot of their basketball team donning ONE bands. The shot beat out strong competition in the ONE Campus Challenge, including one of Iowa State students spelling out “ONE” on a staircase.

To the victor go the points. 1000 to be exact.

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“ONE”ing Obama and a Llama in Iowa

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Last Sunday, more then 2,000 people gathered to welcome Senator Barack Obama to Luther College in Decorah, IA. Our Luther College ONE Campaign group met before the event to write letters to Senator Obama about poverty and HIV/AIDS worldwide. After, we headed over to start tabling and spreading awareness about ONE Vote ‘08.

Many visitors came to our table and signed up for ONE. While we were tabling, a llama (that was brought for the rally) stopped by, so naturally we thought this was a perfect opportunity to “ONE” the llama!

Finally, we marked our spots early so that when Barack Obama entered the event area, we were able to put a ONE band on him right away. He did this with no hesitation of any kind! But it gets even better, because throughout the entire speech he spoke about poverty, primary education, health care, and most of all, HIV/AIDS.

We were able to get the whole event on video that can be seen here. and here.

-Trena Montgomery and Steven Thai, Luther College Students