At the tail end of October, Molly Bode, Dartmouth’s Student Assembly president, issued a challenge to Wilson Tong, Penn’s Undergraduate Assembly chairman:

If more Penn students voted on Election Day than Dartmouth students, Bode would wear tacky Penn apparel for a week – and vice versa.

Naturally, Tong accepted the friendly challenge, and both leaders began campaigning on their respective campuses, encouraging students to “rock the vote” on November 4th so that—at the very least—they could crush their Ivy League brethren.

Well, the results are finally in, and the winner is no one.

The Dartmouth reports:

Neither Darmouth nor the University of Pennsylvania claimed a decisive victory in last week’s voting competition, which sought to determine which swing-state school had the highest student turnout for the 2008 election. After nearly a week of examining data, Dartmouth had a greater campus-wide percentage of voters, while Penn had a higher percentage of registered student voters come out to the polls on Penn’s campus. The schools’ student assemblies, who organized the competition, agreed to split the win.

As a result of the draw, Dartmouth Student Assembly President Molly Bode ‘09 and Penn’s Undergraduate Assembly Chairman senior Wilson Tong will each wear the opposing school’s paraphernalia.

In total, 2,662 Dartmouth students voted, which accounts for roughly 78.6 percent of the student body. Penn numbers are not available at this time, but one must imagine that they are comparable.

Congratulations to both schools for rallying around a good cause and exercising their right to vote.

Hopefully, in 2012, even more students participate.