USD alumnus, Sen. Larry Pressler urges students to vote

Julian Hall — that was my home when I attended the University of South Dakota from 1960 to 1964. I am now an Independent candidate for the US Senate, having already served three terms in the Senate.

It was my privilege to be President of the Student Body, and to be elected a Rhodes scholar to Oxford England in 1964.

During my previous years in the Senate, I did a lot of work on Pell Grants and Stafford loans for students, as I felt like we should be investing in our own people here at home.

I am a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, which I consider now a waste of time and a waste of our nation’s blood and treasure. We should have spent that money on education here in the United States. I am opposed to most of our foreign military interventions — in that sense I am a Libertarian.I want us to have a strong national defense, but not to get involved in all sorts of needless foreign wars.

We need to pay down our deficit and help our own people, especially students. Our universities have become very high-cost to students. We need to allocate more resources to students, not necessarily to university administrator’s salaries or to new buildings or to grandiose projects, but to the basic educational needs of students.

Since leaving the Senate I have been a Fulbright Professor abroad to a number of different universities. I have always kept a foot in South Dakota, and have taught at four South Dakota universities, including the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

I am very grateful to Professor Richardson and others who helped me teach that semester. I am still in touch with many of my students from that class.

In the 18 years since I left the Senate, I have devoted myself to students, and I would like to continue to do that in the US Senate if I were to return. I have been disappointed at the low number of students who have registered to vote.

Wake up, students — and help me get back into the US Senate where I can work for you.

My wife Harriet and I just attended a “red tie” fundraiser for the University of South Dakota in Sioux Falls the other night. I remain very loyal to USD, and although I have degrees from Oxford University, England and two graduate degrees from Harvard, including a Harvard Law degree, I always proudly say the University of South Dakota when people ask me where I went to college, because that is where my basic loyalty lies.

The University of South Dakota helped me with a part-time job as I was struggling to stay in Julian Hall and to get through my four years at USD. I did not join a fraternity while at USD, but later, as an adult, was named to Sigma Alpha Epsilon by my nephews at South Dakota State.
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I did not have enough money to join a fraternity, and in fact I did not have enough money to go to the movies very often when I was at USD.

But I had great support from Dr. Farber and others, as well as many other students who helped me become student body President, with strong support from Julian Hall. I have so many memories of USD.

I will be speaking frequently at USD at different classes and meetings this campaign, so I look forward to seeing you. Thank you all for your help.