a lot of people our age have social anxiety when it comes to talking on the phone. texting is different. there are apps that allow people to text voters directly using databases. voters can respond and answer questions and help people get information about how to get to the nearest wpoll. -- nearest poll. we have seen a word to spread messages on social media. sharing information on facebook and twitter. there have even been tinder campaigns to try to message people on tinder and get the vote out that way. pedro: what position has the college taken on election day? how easy are they making it to vote? aaron: columbia has a university holiday on election day. there is no classes. all employees get the day off. that is intended to get people to the polls. it is a policy that has been in place for a few years.

pedro: when it comes to election day yourself, what will you and your colleagues be doing? aaron: i will be paying attention to the results, watching them that night. i have already voted via absentee ballot. as have most students i know who are voting. it will just be looking at those results. pedro: you are a senior. what do you hope to do after you graduate? aaron: i hope to work for a newspaper covering politics. specifically something like elections in the state capital or national capital. pedro: how can people find your publication online? how do they reach you online if you wish? aaron: you can find the columbia spectator at columbiaspectator.com, and you can follow me on twitter. pedro: aaron holmes, thank you for your time. aaron: thank you. now, theining us

editor in chief at the minnesota daily. good morning. thank you for joining us. kelly: thank you for having me. pedro: how would you describe the level of activity on campus leading up to next week? kelly: it has been wild. there are people handing out flyers in class to get you to vote. students are really energized right now. that thing is we want to see them show up to the polls. pedro: what do you think will happen as far as groups involved with the parties involved to make sure that enthusiasm turns into people showing up? kelly: we will not know until election day. i predict more students will show up. i don't know if it will be in historic numbers, although they have been pushing and volunteering in a historic way. there has been higher volunteer numbers we have reported. we are waiting to see on election day.

it is really hard to know what the student vote. pedro: on your campus, our people allowed to go into the dorms door to door to talk about politics? kelly: they are. they can door knock. they just have to register before. pedro: where does social media come into play when it comes to getting people to come out to vote? kelly: personally i have seen a lot of ads on my social media feed, but there has been a lot of stuff spread via facebook. the big thing for the university of minnesota campus is holding events to get people to show up and register. they will market those events on social media. that is a good way to draw in people. pedro: those events, are they republican, democratic in nature or other groups represented? kelly: that's a really good question.

what we have seen on the university of minnesota campus is a shift in strategy. a lot of students are just trying to get the students out to vote. they are not specifically aligning with a party. they just want the students to show up and vote. pedro: when it comes to the people reporting on these issues, what are the motivating issues that drive students to vote? what are they telling you? kelly: great question again. what we have heard throughout all of our reporting is students are worried about student loans, climate change and gun control. those are the things we see having immediate impact and the ones students have a lot to talk about. pedro: what motivates this? the shootings this year or are other things motivating them? kelly: exactly. with gun control it is dealing with those events. for climate change it is seeing the reports and media coverage

predicting not a sustainable earth for us in the future. and for tuition, we are paying our student fees and seeing the long-term debt buildup for us. that is another big motivating factor. pedro: when it comes to the university itself, has supportive are they of these efforts? kelly: they are really supportive. i have been pleased with house -- with how supportive the university of minnesota has been. students can swing through on the way to class and go vote. they are very accommodating to the events i was talking about where students can show up and register to vote or learn about who to vote for. the university has given us space to have these events. it has been a well-rounded experience at the university of minnesota in terms of university support. pedro: when it comes to the

events, are we talking about visits by candidates were asking directly for a vote? if that is the case, describe what you have seen? kelly: we have seen both types of events. we just had someone last week from the march for life group on campus with a bunch of other political people running for office. we have a lot of those events where students can listen and understand what those candidates want to vote for. pedro: talk about the coverage you will do on election night. kelly: we have been preparing for this for a while. this is our big night. we are so excited to be covering this. we have all hands on deck, all 16 of our reporters will be at election parties covering the candidates. we will cover in day-of elections.