Provo, Utah. Chad Hudgens was tortured outside a Provo office park. Not for conspiricy allegations by a team of investigators, but by his boss for low sales numbers. Mr. Hudgens volunteered for a "team-building exercise," went outside and laid down on his back with his head downhill (the previous excersize was an egg toss). The co-workers then pinned him down while their supervisor poured water on his nose and mouth. His boss told the executives that he was inspired by reading about the Greek philosopher Socrates, who is said to have once held a student’s head under water, then told him he must want to learn as badly as he wanted air.

Mr. Hudgens has now filed a worker's compensation lawsuit against his boss and company for using the method as motivation. The lawsuit has been catching a lot of national attention due to the intense debate over torture in Washington D.C.

President Bush has recently admitted to approving a meeting between top White House aides such as Vice President Cheney. During these meetings, they approved techniques such as waterboarding. Until now, Bush did not acknowledge that he permitted the meetings. In a recent ABC interview, Bush admits to allowing “enhanced interrogation”. The ACLU has called for Congress to investigate the executive branch's decisions.

Mt. Hudgens had a few thoughts to offer about his experience with torture. “I don’t know if the government should do it or not,” Hudgens said. “But I can tell you firsthand, because it happened to me, it definitely works. They didn’t tell me it was going to happen, but if they did, holy cow, I would’ve told them whatever they wanted me to tell them”. Can you guess what is not as important as breathing..? Sales.

Politico recently published an article on March 22nd about the correlation between education and actually voting. The study done by Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement at the University of Maryland shows that constituents under the age of 30 were 3 1/2 times more likely to vote if they graduated college or at least had some secondary education.

The article goes on to explain that college campuses are the easiest way to target the youth voters, but there needs to be a way we can reach the majority of the youth that actually do not attend college.

I think that some of this can be done in High School. This would be a great time to have students register and give them an opportunity for education. Another step is utilizing student network tools such as facebook and myspace. There are many students and non students out there who do not know the power that is entitled to them.