Student Voters

Dartmouth students have registered to vote in the March 7 New Hampshire primaries in unprecedented numbers. Federal legislation lowering minimum voting age to 18 and a recent ruling by a federal judge in New Hampshire which permits students, under certain conditions, to vote where they go to school have had their impact on the voting lists in Hanover as elsewhere.

Where the supervisors of the Hanover checklist normally have registered "only five or six students" during meetings in the weeks before primary elections, a spokesman reports that the average number of students registered at each meeting had increased to about 25 by the middle of February.

With three more sessions to go before the primary, more than 200 students had registered. By the March 1 deadline, the number could be doubled.

The College has become an increasingly attractive target for presidential aspirants in recent weeks, with Senator George McGovern and Congressman Paul McCloskey the most frequent visitors and the Vance Hartkes of Indiana represented by both father and son. Others have sent proxies.