All 6,000 incoming residence hall dwellers will receive a voter registration form at check-in in the fall as part of student leaders' efforts to register voters.
Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Alistair Chapman and Residence Hall Association President Dan Tuttle, who are coordinating the effort, said they know it is important in an election year to get every possible voter registered and motivated to vote.
Forms will be placed in every room of every residence hall on campus, and there will be booths at every hall to answer questions and help students fill out their forms, Chapman said.
ASUA is working in conjunction with RHA, Residence Life and Arizona Students' Association to administer these forms.
Patrick Call, assistant director of Residence Life, gave the groups permission to set up booths in front of the halls at check-in.
He also approved that the voter registration forms be put in each of the rooms so residents would receive them at check-in.
"We said we would include the form in the rooms," he said. "What (the residents) choose to do with them is up to them, but we wanted to support RHA and ASUA in their initiative to get folks registered."
The UA is also working with Arizona State University in Tempe and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff to get all of their incoming residence hall residents to register.
"We are going to have about 18,000 forms statewide, and it will be one of the largest simultaneous voter registration movements in Arizona," Chapman said.
Chapman originally came up with the idea last summer but did not have enough time to initiate it.
He also said there are many other events planned to get students motivated to vote.
"We may hold a ĪRock the Vote' concert where admission would be showing your voter registration card or the carbon copy of the form," he said.
Ted Theodorou, RHA president-elect, will be administering the form distribution in the fall.
"It's a great idea I think during orientation and the check-in process to encourage students to vote," he said. "I understand that there is so much to get acclimated at the beginning of the year, and if we can get them to do this one more thing, it will be great."