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Wed 04 Apr 2007Student body calls for election on a FridayMore than 70,000 third-level students will be disenfranchised if the Taoiseach insists that the general election is not held on a Friday, according to the president of the Union of Students of Ireland (USI).On the eve of the USI's annual congress, which opens in Bundoran, Co Donegal, today, Colm Hamrogue said yesterday that at a time when student leaders were being proactive in encouraging members to engage with politics, the Government was set to deny thousands of people the opportunity to participate in the democratic process.