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...Saturday, September 21. The e-mail I receive from the IOP about HYPE '96 teases, "MTV will be there, will you?" so I arrive at the MAC Quad early, determined to pigeonhole one of the station's bigwigs. Ready to pretend I'm a journalist, I have a few questions written on a note card about MTV's role in the political process: "Are 'Choose or Lose' specials and the 'Week in Rock' programs objective news accounts? Doesn't MTV's hosting of a ball at the Clinton inaugural imply a partisan leaning? But if CBS held an inaugural ball...
...congratulate the organizers of the Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment (HYPE) rally and hope that more students have educated on election issues and have registered to vote. About half the undergraduate population attended, and we can only hope that just as many students turn out to the voting booths in November...
...HYPE should also be recognized for registering at least 400 voters during the rock-filled fest and for its efforts in enticing students to attend by closing some house dining halls, recruiting speakers like Susan Roosevelt Weld and George Stephanopoulos, and hiring bands like Expanding Man, Piraeus and Daily Planet. By making the afternoon fun, they showed how pop-culture and politics can work together to inform students about the power of voting. We encourage students to take advantage of events like HYPE in the future...
...unbalanced speaker ratio of five Democrats to two Republicans, as well as the notable absence of alternative perspectives such as Socialist and Libertarian, is something that should not have been overlooked in planning HYPE, which claimed to be a non-partisan rally. The partisanship which was evident by negligible anyhow. Politics is about strong opinions, and it is played out through parties. To ignore this reality and supply trite blather about voting obligations--rather than strong campaign endorsements and policy contestations--will not encourage anyone to vote...
...tried to get past the barricades to get back into Winthrop House later in the day--the event was a great one. I hope we can continue to delude our first years into thinking that these days happen all the time by supporting even more terrific events like HYPE...