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...Harvard students do not vote in Cambridge. We are not aware of local issues, still thinking of our hometowns as our homes. It seems wrong that having made the commitment to live in this city for four years, we feel comfortable remaining completely dissociated from the issues which deeply affect city residents. We spend our days educating ourselves about abstract questions, but allow ourselves the luxury of ignoring the day-to-day concerns of the community that we inhabit...
...city doesn’t take a stand to protect it. We may not live among our neighbors, but we do inhabit their larger community. We’ll live in this community four years, and we have an obligation to inform ourselves about the issues that affect it. And in the case of a no-brainer like this one, we owe it to the community to vote in its interests...
...Affordable housing certainly affects a small group of people very strongly, but it doesn’t affect the whole constituency. I’ll concentrate on more general problems like road paving and straightening sidewalks,” he says...
Kastner said, however, that she did not expect the e-mail to affect the outcome of the election...
...Ping, a graduate student in philosophy, spoke about humanitarian concerns, such as hunger, drought and closed borders, that affect Afghanistan...