Students will have an opportunity to send e-mails to President Bush this Thursday via wireless Internet.

Michael Barrita, commissioner of external affairs, is looking toward giving the students the opportunity to express concern over Bush’s recent call for 21,000 additional troops to be deployed to Iraq.

The “Voice Your Opinion” campaign will be held every Thursday this semester from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in Falcon Square and will be sponsored by the Political Science and MEChA club. Barrita said that the e-mails written by students will then be sent to the office of President Bush.

However students like Elizabeth Calancha, math major, said that she wasn’t so sure that sending the e-mail to the president would work. “He is going to do whatever he feels like anyway,” she said.

Nevertheless,she did say that Bush’s recent strategy for Iraq is meaningless and that having more troops going overseas will not accomplish much.

Calancha, who has a cousin that was deployed to Iraq from Germany in December, said that she all she wants is for her cousin to return home.

Afterward, Barrita said that he agreed that sending additionally troops to Iraq is a mistake. “All of the money that is used for the funding of this war could be used for funding education,” he explained, “and helping the welfare system.”

Furthermore, he said he hopes the campaign will help put pressure on politicians to put a stop to the war itself. With the help of both the Political Science Club and MEChA, Barrita said that the event will be held possibly three or four times a week.

Rosio Marquez, veterinarian major, said that she wasn’t so sure that sending the email to President Bush would work. She agreed with Calancha that the war is meaningless.

Barrita said that he sees this as a benefit to those who have or who don’t have a loved one fighting in Iraq.

“The benefit is that those family members will have something to say and will be able to express it,” he commented, “because even if we don’t have a loved one fighting the war on terrorism, this current war is affecting all of us.”

Marquez isn’t sure about that. She said that having the campaign and having an opportunity to say something to the President is a good idea, “but if you think about it, is it really enough to change Bush’s mind about going to war?”