Senior Bradley Dlatt, a Hatchet columnist, encourages students to remember that if they want to have a greater impact on their futures, they need to show up to vote.

In the months leading up to the 2010 midterm elections, we heard many times over what is at stake for the country. An endless number of politicians told us through e-mail, Facebook and cheesy TV ads that this election was a referendum on our future.

The question college students should have been asking, however, was not whether our candidates of choice were actually talking about the future, but rather, whose future were they talking about? In an election dominated by media stories of witches, tea partiers and rallies for honor, sanity and fear, where do the college students of America fit in? What was in it for us?