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LU Student Government Association President Matt Mihelic is rallying his troops for the showdown with City Council tonight at City Hall. A letter he sent out states in part: “Fellow Students, As most of you know, many students are descending on City Hall tonight to take a stand for our voting rights because the Lynchburg [...]

LU students will be flooding the Lynchburg City Council meeting this evening by the busload. They feel slighted by City Council’s moves to change their polling location. At issue is the difficulty of getting busses in and out of the polling location to transport LU students. LU officials suggested two possible alternatives: Thomas Road Baptist [...]

http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0210/707158.html Lynchburg City Council voted to restrict debate on a new polling place for Liberty University Students to Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene on Wards Ferry Road. Councilmen Jeff Helgeson and Turner Perrow wanted to consider using Thomas Road Baptist Church and the old Circuit City building in Candlers Station as possible places for [...]