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Despite the smaller pool, however, the Council was repeatedly unable to reach a consensus. During the sixth and final election—on Feb. 22, eight weeks after the initial ballot??Decker expressed a desire to expedite the sluggish process...
...Casting the First Ballot,” the fall exhibit at the Harvard College Women’s Center, draws together this struggle for suffrage with contemporary voter issues. Through reproductions of historical photographs and art by current Harvard students, “Casting the First Ballot?? explores what it means to be a voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, the student curator of the exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events...
...Kafkaesque procedures like those in Mississippi—where people must actually call in to request a request form for an absentee ballot??that convince me that unforgiving voting laws are greater culprits in low youth turnout than political disinterest. In a recent IOP Survey, conducted last spring, 72 percent of surveyed college students said they would be voting in the general election, a 10-point increase relative to 2000. Meanwhile, ask a college student how he can vote absentee: According to the 2003 Survey, one in three students will tell you he has no idea...
...commonly value freedom and democracy. I look to 2008 and hope that our next government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people—and that includes of, by, and for America’s youth. So go out, and cast your ballot??in the name of liberty, and for every disenfranchised young person in the world who would die for the opportunity to do so him or herself...
...really, really anxious when gay marriage came up—whether it would be on the popular vote ballot?? said Michelle C. Kellaway ’10, Community Chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance. “After that battle was won, I breathed a sigh of relief, and I’m not worried about it anymore...