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As Democratic Primary Continues, So Does Youth Participation Exit polls from Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections in Indiana and North Carolina indicate continued strong youth voter participation. |
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UNC Student Protestors Arrested 3 Weeks Into Protest The student protest at the University of North Carolina asking Chancellor James Moeser to sign the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP) – a pact requiring the university to buy 75 percent of its licensed apparel from factories that pay living wages and allow collective bargaining -- ended after its third week. |
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Harvard Institute of Politics Surveys Young America Harvard University’s Institute of Politics recently released their latest Survey on Politics and Public Service, a political survey conducted every election cycle to gage the political prowess and civic engagement of young Americans. |
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Vietnamese Student Union Protests Repatriation Legislation The University of California at Los Angeles' Vietnamese Student Union held a protest last Wednesday in response to the U.S. and Vietnamese Repatriation Agreement, enacted in late January, directed at Vietnamese residents in the U.S. Under the legislation Vietnamese residents will be deported if they arrived on or after July 12, 1995 and received an order of removal because of criminal offenses. |
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Court ID Decision Burden to Students On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana state law requiring voters to produce state-issued photo identification for eligibility. The law, one of the most restrictive in the country, does not allow students to use college identification cards. |
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Yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary came six weeks after the last primary vote, making the Keystone State the center of intense campaigning and attention. Over the past several weeks and through Election Day, students demonstrated in myriad ways that they are paying attention, getting active in the campaign and voting. |
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Students Turn Out For PA Primary The morning after the highly anticipated Pennsylvania primary, campus newspapers are reporting record student turnout. The Penn State Daily Collegian and a local paper report a turnout of 4,433 voters at student heavy precincts, up from 444 in the 2004 primary, with at least 2,000 students voting at one on-campus polling place. |
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Pennsylvania Student Government Leaders Back Obama In another sign that more young people are paying close attention to the presidential race, and that candidates and the media are likewise paying attention to young voters, the student body presidents from four Philadelphia area colleges cosigned an endorsement of Senator Obama last week – and their endorsement got attention. |
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Virginia Tech: One Year Anniversary Campuses across the country joined Virginia Tech Wednesday to memorialize the 32 students and faculty killed one year ago in the infamous campus shooting. The shooting by a student with a history of mental health problems has prompted a nationwide reevaluation of campus mental health, privacy, security, and firearm policies. |
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As more and more people – especially young people - get their news and watch television and video online, political campaigns and unaffiliated supporters are turning to tools like youtube to get their message out. |
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Illinois Student Running for State Rep University of Illinois junior Frank Calabrese recently announced that he was running as the Republican Party nominee for University of Illinois’ State House seat. |
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Campus Crusaders Engage Peers on Faith The University of Illinois chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ recently held “Blitz Week,” a week dedicated to actively sharing faith and religious beliefs with friends and classmates. |
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Pennsylvania Primary Approaches, Students Take Action The College Republicans and College Democrats at Saint Joseph’s University are gearing up for Pennsylvania’s upcoming primary on April 22nd by galvanizing the campus. |
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On the last Saturday in March, the day before his birthday, students across the country honored civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. |
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James Madison Cadets Unaffected by National Drop in ROTC Enrollment The Breeze examines James Madison University’s award-winning ROTC program that has grown significantly since 2000 despite national decreases in ROTC programs nationwide since 9/11. |
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College Celibacy Increasingly Cool The New York Times investigates the growing presence of abstinence groups on Ivy League campuses. |
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Sea Change in Civic Participation at Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon students are gearing up for the Pennsylvania primary on April 22nd and working hard to get others actively involved in the election. |
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Students Talk Economics at Policy Fair The University of Michigan’s Roosevelt Institution chapter hosted the Institution’s Midwest Regional Conference which brought together students, entrepreneurs and politicians to discuss creative policy solutions to pressing social problems. Because of Michigan’s dismal economic situation, the conference largely focused on ways to stimulate the state economy. |
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Alternative, Alternative Spring Break Over their spring break, 50 student members of the California Public Interest Research Group traveled the state holding a series of media events to promote the creation of a high-speed rail line. |
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Texas Christian University’s Daily Skiff investigates youth participation in the upcoming election, and how candidates are reaching out to young people like never before. |
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Youth Voters Psyched for Civic Participation Student members of Vanderbilt’s Election Alliance ’08 are working to build enthusiasm on campus for the 2008 presidential election. |
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Reverend Jeremiah Wright has made quite a name for himself in recent weeks as the fiery and outspoken former pastor of presidential candidate Barack Obama. Wright spoke at Amherst College last February and was well-received at the time. The Amherst Student newspaper investigates the current sentiments of students and faculty on campus to see if anything has changed. |
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Campus Safer With or Without Guns? In the wake of recent campus shootings, colleges and universities are debating how best to handle student safety. In several states, students and legislators are lobbying for concealed carry on campus. |
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Medical Students Stand Up to Pharmaceuticals The University of North Carolina’s chapter of PharmFree, an organization of the American Medical Student Association, is working to eliminate the presence of pharmaceutical companies from doctors' offices. |
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Students Accruing More Than Loan Debt Credit card companies are now a major presence on college campuses, targeting students to sign up for credit cards and leaving them with growing amounts of debt. |
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Power Shifting Into the Hands of Students Thanks in part to hundreds of phone calls from Smith students, the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) has passed through the Massachusetts Senate. |
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Last week, in observance of the 5-year anniversary of the Iraq War, the University of Minnesota’s newspaper The Minnesota Daily, interviewed student veterans. |
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Arizona State University students Lisa Fernandez and Sean Bowie will cast their votes this August as Arizona state delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. |
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Polls For Students By Students Students at the University of Delaware are creating and conducting a survey called the Blue Hen Poll 2008 – the first student opinion poll created by students on campus. |
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The once-cheap road trip used to be a staple of college life; not so these days. Gasoline prices are reaching record highs and students are rethinking traveling plans as gas money is stretched thin. |
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Students and Faculty on a Divided Democratic Party The University of Arizona’s Arizona Wildcat explores the opinions of students and faculty on the growing tensions between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as the race for the Democratic nomination continues. |
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This week marks the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq, and students are using the anniversary to protest. The protests were notably small, reflecting the recent decline in public attention to the war, so student activists turned to creative tactics to gain attention. |
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This week the Society of College Journalists (SCJ) at North Carolina State University are working to raise awareness on campus for Sunshine Week, an initiative started by the American Society of Newspaper Editors to educate students on the importance of freedom of information. |
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Last week two dozen protestors from the University of Pittsburg, Chatham University, Carnegie Mellon University and Planned Parenthood stood in the rain in protest of rising birth control prices. |
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As the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq approaches, student stances on the war are as varied as ever. |
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Seventeen Could Be The New Eighteen A resolution proposed by Illinois state Representative Lou Lang could have younger voters rocking the elections by November. |
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Students Cooperating for Change Last week, student organizations at Amherst College collaborated on a massive scale for Awareness Week 2008. |
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The Peace and Justice League at the University of New Hampshire recently held their third official anti-war vigil of the year at the War Memorial in downtown Durham. |
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Kline Speaks out Against Corzine Funding Decline After New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine proposed $38 million in budget cuts to Rutgers University in the upcoming year, students and citizens alike have grown increasingly concerned about the future of higher education in New Jersey. |
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Two University of Southern California students are running in the local North Area Neighborhood Development Council elections. |
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Ohio and Texas: Kind of a Big Deal Last Tuesday Republican candidate John McCain clinched the Republican nomination as College Republicans at Ohio University – and across the country – rallied behind their candidate. |
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Students Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead in Uggs Last week students at Princeton University staked out a spot on campus to lay in the snow playing dead, wearing coats covered with fake blood and signs that read, “What if you were killed for your coat?” |
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RI, OH, TX, VT Primaries Tomorrow As another round of presidential primaries approaches, the people of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Ohio are gearing up to cast their votes and bring the country one step closer to determining who the 2008 presidential nominees will be. |
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Last week Students for a Democratic Society at the University of North Carolina held an anti-war protest in the form of a mock draft in response to President Bush’s call to increase the number of troops in Iraq to 20,000. |
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In response to the recent shooting at Northern Illinois University many students are lobbying for the ability to carry guns on campus as a means of protection. |
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The Republican Club at the University of Massachusetts held a rally last week on the front steps of the Student Union in response to what the club members deemed a “pornographic” brochure. |
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Students Protest Former U.S Attorney Alberto Gonzales Over 100 students and community members from Washington University in St. Louis protested former U.S Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last week when he traveled to the university to speak. |
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As their March 4th primary nears, students at Texas A&M are gearing up to vote and finding that they have more in common than not: partisan ties aside, students, faculty, and candidates alike are convinced that the youth vote will be an important factor in deciding the outcome of the election. |
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Michigan Students Dedicated to Voting Voice Your Vote, an entirely student-run organization at the University of Michigan is starting early in its effort to get the student vote out for the upcoming presidential election. |
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Wisconsin Primary Follows National Trend in Student Voting In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, students and professors at the University of Wisconsin have become intensely involved in the political happenings on campus thanks to new media outlets. |
