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...think apathy is too simple a way to describe the phenomenon of low voter turnout among young people. When 60 percent of college students participate in some kind of community service, as a study by Harvard’s Institute of Politics found last year, it is hard to say that young people don’t care about the issues that face our country. And when 60 percent also believe this voluntarism more effectively combats social problems than the political process, it is wrong to say they don’t think they can make a difference. They do?...
...rawest and purest. Many of your parents belong to the generation that helped to lead the civil rights movement when they were no older than you are now. Two decades later, in 1992, young people reversed a 20-year downward trend in their age group’s voter turnout, successfully paving the way for eight years of promise and prosperity...
...Monteiro ’04, during this last election over twice as many males ran for council representative positions than females, but their election success rates were about the same. And even after the HPU deliberately picked topics they felt would make the group more inviting to females, the turnout was still very...
Mary Regan, a leader of the Committee for Cambridge Rent Control, predicted before the results of the vote were announced last night that voter turnout was not high enough to pass the measure outright...
...proportional” system, in which first place votes count the most. Last election, approximately 1,700 first-place votes secured a seat on the council. While DeBergalis says he has helped as many as 800 students at Harvard and MIT register, this number falls far short of the turnout he will need to be elected. At the time of the last election, two years ago, only 649 Harvard undergraduates were registered to vote in Cambridge, and less than eight percent of them voted in the race for City Council. In order for the student voice to be heard...