Generation Dean, the arm of the Howard Dean campaign aimed at college and high school students, is ready to take a swing at Iowa State.

The ISU branch of the Generation Dean campaign, which has more than 700 chapters nationwide, proclaimed this week as “Generation Dean Week.” The message of Dean’s candidacy will be spread by campaigners visiting bars, planting prairie seeds and wearing Howard Dean T-shirts.

On Thursday the campaign will go bar-hopping for the “Dean Bar Crawl and Voter Registration Night.” Dean supporters under the legal drinking age will dance at The Boheme, 2100 West St., and meet other supporters, while those 21 years and older will visit the bars to register voters and give supporters information. The goal is to reach all of the bars on Welch Avenue, said Joel Taylor, president of Cyclones for Dean. “We wanted to register voters in the bars because it’s an easy way to target many students at once,” he said.

On Saturday students will take part in a prairie seed harvest through Dean Corps, the community service arm of the campaign, helping an Ames-area farmer with his harvest.

Organizers of Generation Dean Week will rely on high visibility as their chief means of raising Howard Dean awareness.

On Wednesday, a small example of Dean’s rallying power will be in evidence in front the Hub at 12:30 p.m., where supporters will gather to form a “flash-mob.”

Taylor explained a flash-mob. “We gather, do a few cheers and create some visibility before dispersing.”

Student supporters of Dean said the constant exposure will raise interest in the campaign.

“Seeing Dean several times in such a short period will hopefully spark their interest to check out the Dean for America Web site and see he’s the candidate to take on Bush,” said Jennifer Osen, junior in political science.