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UTD Students Behind the Scenes on City Planning
Eleven students at the University of Texas at Dallas are working behind the scenes with a Richardson City Council member, Amir Omar, to gain real world experience in regional planning and city policy.
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Kansas Students Elucidate Healthcare
The Concerned Active and Aware Students at Kansas University held a Health Policy Awareness Campaign Monday and Tuesday to help other students navigate the new health care bill.
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Students Claim Police Harassment at CSUN
California State University-Northridge (CSUN) students involved in Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) claim they were harassed by Los Angeles Police Department officers during their first meeting Sept. 2.
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Portland State Registers Students for Special Election
The Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU) is working to register 2,510 Portland State students to vote by January 5th for Oregon’s January 25th special election, in which about $733 million in tax dollars could go to the state’s public education system.
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Group Says Health Care Reforms Fail to Embrace Students
The Lookout Mountain Group (LMG), a non-partisan organization examining the effect of proposed health insurance reforms on college student health care, released a press statement criticizing current health reform proposals.
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UNC Students Battle Voter Apathy
On October 6th, the Young Democrats and the College Republicans of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill hosted a debate for the four Chapel Hill mayoral candidates in an effort to increase student involvement in the election.
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Bills Pass to Limit Credit Card Marketing to Students
Student and consumer advocates saw victory this week in both the Illinois General Assembly and Congress as bills to limit credit card marketing to students and stop companies from issuing students more credit than they can pay off advanced.
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BYU-Idaho Bans Student Political Organizations
Brigham Young University-Idaho disbanded the student-run College Republicans and College Democrats, arguing removing political organizations is necessary to enforce the school’s new political neutrality policy.
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UNC Activists File Complaint With Campus Police Over Pepper Spray
Members of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Protesters Defense Committee filed a formal complaint with the university’s police department arguing officers unnecessarily pepper-sprayed them during a protest of former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo’s speech last month.
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Eugene Police to Increase Taser Program Despite Concerns
The Eugene Police Department plans to expand its Taser program and eventually equip every patrol officer with a Taser. While the department believes the results of a pilot program indicate Tasers will be useful and appropriate, many University of Oregon students and non-student community members are expressing concern and opposition to the new Taser policy
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New York Students Protest State Budget Cuts
College students from private and public schools across the state of New York joined together to protest Governor David Paterson’s proposed plan to increase tuition for state-funded universities and to cut public education budgets by $2 million in the upcoming fiscal year.
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Protestors See Democacy, Others See Disrespect
“This is what democracy looks like!” The chant echoed through megaphones as students at New York University occupied the dining area of Kimmel Hall during a 40-hour protest. Yet NYU administrators, some students and the staff of the student newspaper don’t agree with the protestors’ picture of democracy in action.
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Rally for Same Sex Marriage
Brown students and over a hundred Rhode Island residents gathered together in Rhode Island's State House rotunda in support of a same sex marriage bill that is currently in the state legislature.
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Students Lobby for Their School
Ten Student Government members along with a student journalist from Eastern Michigan University traveled to the Michigan state capitol to advocate for their University to be included in a bill providing funding for campus construction.
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South Carolina Students Rally at General Assembly
About 100 college students from across South Carolina rallied at the state's Capitol Tuesday to lobby against Gov. Mark Sanford's proposed tuition cap and against higher education budget cuts in the General Assembly.
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Obama Signs Stimulus
After weeks of partisan jockeying on the Hill President Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus into effect Tuesday. Education spending includes $15.6 billion for Pell grants, which means each individual grant will go up by $500.
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Protesters say ICE destroys communities
California State University, Fresno students protested the presence of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency at an on-campus Federal Government Fair.
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Student Protesters React to Police Shooting
Students from University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley middle and high schools marched Friday to express their outrage over the death of Oscar Grant III. Grant was killed in the early Jan. 1 by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer.
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IU Students for Liberty Stage Rally
Not all were celebrating as Barack Obama took his oath of office this past Tuesday. Shortly after the ceremony, members of Indiana University Students for Liberty gathered to protest and question the actions President Obama has already taken. In particular, the group is upset by the certain cabinet selections President Obama has made for his cabinet and by his President Obama’s decision to back the bailouts.
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Inauguration Nation
On Jan. 20, college students across the country gathered at campus auditoriums, theaters and student unions to watch Barack Obama become America's 44th president.
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U.S. Students Take Action Over Gaza
Students returning to school for their spring semesters are organizing a wide range of responses to the conflict in Gaza, including speakers, demonstrations and Facebook campaigns.
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Dartmouth Student Wins County Treasurer Race
Dartmouth University junior and Democrat Vanessa Sievers was elected Treasurer for Grafton Country in New Hampshire on November 4. Sievers ran against Republican incumbent Carol Elliott who held the position for three years.
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A Surge in Student Voter Turnout
The 2008 Presidential race has been called an historic election, and indeed it has been. Not just for African-Americans and for women, but for young people too. According to data released by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, over 2.2 million young voters turned out to the polls this election, many of whom were first-time voters.
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A New Spirit of Service
In his acceptance speech last night, President-elect Barack Obama cautioned crowds that, “this victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.” One student from Northwestern University heard him loud and clear.
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Party at the Polls
Earlier this year TIME magazine called 2008 the “Year of the Youth Vote.” And indeed, all signs point to increased voter turnout across the board – particularly among young people.
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Political Student Groups React to Election Results
Student groups like the College Democrats have spent the last few months campaigning like crazy; pushing register students, and get them out to the polls. And now their hard work paid off and their candidate won – cause for nothing short of sheer celebration on campuses across the country.
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Students Barack the Vote
According to several polls taken around the country, 68 percent of people under the age of 30 voted for Barack Obama.
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Political Student Groups React to Election Results
Student groups like the College Democrats have spent the last few months campaigning like crazy: pushing register students, and get them out to the polls. And now their hard work paid off and their candidate won – cause for nothing short of sheer celebration on campuses across the country.
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McCain on Campus
With polls showing Barack Obama secure in a double-digit lead over John McCain amongst college-age voters, college Republicans are feeling a bit lonely. NYU’s Washington Square Times likened McCain supporters on their campus to needles in a haystack.
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Tips for Student Voters
Rock the Vote and The Brennan Center for Justice put together a few tips for students to keep in mind while exercising their right.
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Students Run for State Government
Ohio State University graduate Melissa Stanley and University of Minnesota student Ole Hovde are running for their respective state legislatures this fall.
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Texting the Vote Away
A new study released by the Student PIRGs New Voter’s Project and Credo Mobile shows that youth voter turnout increased 4.6 percent when students were reminded to vote by text messaging on Election Day.
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Day Off for Democracy?
With less than a week until Election Day, university communities across the country are beginning to wonder what the anticipated youth vote turnout will look like on campus. As voter registration rates reach record highs, concerns are mounting that voting on November 4th may take longer than usual — a fact that may deter young voters from reaching the polls.
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The New GI Bill
A few months ago the Department of Veteran Affairs signed a new GI Bill into law. As the name suggests, the “Post-9/11 GI Bill” is designed for veterans who served on active duty during the three years after 9/11.
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Funk the War
On Sept. 27, students at Northern Arizona University peacefully protested the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Door to Door in the Dorms
The deadlines for voter registration are upon us. The earliest deadlines have come and gone, and many states are now counting down the days before registration ends. On campus, efforts have grown exponentially as student groups push to register students in record numbers, knowing that this election could well be determined by the youth vote.
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Apathy Is So 2004
Students across the country seem determined to make their mark on history, as youth geared get-out-the-vote efforts surge strongly forward with a type of zealous political energy not seen since the Vietnam era.
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Candidates on National Security
In the post 9/11 age, National Security is high on every American’s priority list. This week NSNS takes a look at the presidential candidates’ stances on National Security.
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Registration is Sexy
Students are stepping up registration efforts to register their peers before the deadline hits.
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Debate Night
Last Friday night students across the country tuned in for first of the presidential debates. Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama duked it out on the national stage over the economy and foreign policy.
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Student Hacks Palin Email
20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee, has been served an FBI search warrant for allegedly hacking into vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s private email accounts.
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Voting Conflicts in Michigan
Michigan’s American Civil Liberties Union and the United States Student Association are filing a lawsuit against the state of Michigan.
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Finance Students Fu…razzled
As investment firms are crashing and burning, the job search for finance majors is growing increasingly difficult.
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Degree At Last
Honorary degrees were awarded to 14 students who were expelled from the school for their participation in the 1961 Freedom Rides.
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ACLU Sticks Up for Students
The American Civil Liberties Union has recently sent out letters to 32 state registrars urging them to allow students to register to vote where they attend school.
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ROTC Or Not To Be?
In the midst of a controversial war and an historic election, the issues of military service and support are hot button issues.
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Students Lobby for Fire Safety
35 student representatives from the University of South Carolina’s Greek organizations traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby for The Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2007.
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Power Vote
As the country moves closer to choosing our next president, Power Vote is ramping up efforts to make its voice heard throughout campuses nationwide.
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Auburn Students Take Lead in State Student Campaign
Republicans are reaching out to the student demographic in a big way in Alabama as Andrew White, a student at Auburn University in Alabama has been chosen to serve as the state chair of a John McCain campaign organization geared toward students: Alabama Students for McCain-Palin Leadership.
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GOTV – Better Than Television
Every presidential election in recent years has posed the same question as November 4 approaches: will students vote? This historic election has students all across the country making plans and building momentum to vote in what many hope will be record numbers.
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I Wanna Rock the Vote All Night
Rock the Vote, a nonprofit organization that uses music, pop culture, and new technologies to engage young voters, is currently touring school campuses to encourage students to vote and to spread awareness about national issues.
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The Ultimate College Bowl
For the first time in history, the country’s four largest non-partisan voter registration groups are teaming up to register young voters in record numbers.
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OpenVote Brings Polls to Campus
Two graduate students from Dartmouth College have created OpenVote, a new Facebook application that lets students poll each other on campus and across the country.
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Social Networks Register Voters
Social networking sites have been transformed this election season. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others have become more than just places to waste time. They are providing students and candidates alike with great tools to increase the scope of politics on campus.
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Youth Vote?
Virginia’s Montgomery County, home to Virginia Tech, recently issued a press release addressing the “proper protocol” for college students registering to vote. The county registrar of elections said that the memo was intended to provide students with cautionary information on the voter registration process. Many, however, said the warnings are overstated and misleading.
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Sarah Palin on Higher Education
Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain has announced his pick for vice president: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This week NSNS examines Governor Palin’s stances on higher education.
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Students of All Political Persuasions at the RNC
This week student delegates, journalists, bloggers, protestors, and political junkies flocked to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota. While the convention got off to a slow start due to hurricane Gustav, things finally picked up and the week has provided no shortage of political zeal.
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Senator Joe Biden on Higher Education
Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has finally announced his much-anticipated vice presidential pick, Delaware Senator Joe Biden. This week NSNS takes a look at the VP pick’s stances on education.
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Back to School Brings Presidential Race to Campus
Presidential hopeful John McCain released his much anticipated education policy just in time for the rush back to school. While Senator Obama has had his education policy in place for some time, Senator McCain has had little to say to students on the subject until now.
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Nebraska Student Sues to Amend Affirmative Action Ban
Jeff Hall, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to amend the ballot language of a proposed affirmative action ban in Nebraska.
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Student Empowerment at Campus Progress National Conference
This week Campus Progress held their annual National Conference in Washington DC. Thousands of students from across the country gathered for a day of discussion panels, speakers, and networking events to tackle some of the biggest issues facing young people today.
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The Student Vote: Not a Monolith
Because their primaries come so late, Oregon and Kentucky voters didn’t expect their votes to have much significance, a dynamic that changed due to the protracted Democratic primary.
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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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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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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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Generation Engaged
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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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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The Digitized Election
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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Students Honor Cesar Chavez
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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Young Voter Study
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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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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Students React to Rev. Wright
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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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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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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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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Student Iraq Veterans
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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Student Delegates
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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Gas Prices and Spring Break
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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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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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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The Right to Know
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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5 Years in Iraq
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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Affordable Birth Control
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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Students’ Stakes on War
As the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq approaches, student stances on the war are as varied as ever.
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Protests for Peace
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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Lobbying in Albany
This past Tuesday, approximately 1,000 students, faculty and staff from Stony Brook University, and nearly 50 students from New York University made the journey to Albany, NY to lobby for higher education.
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Students Represent
Two University of Southern California students are running in the local North Area Neighborhood Development Council elections.
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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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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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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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Mock Draft
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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Concealed Campus Weapons
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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Republicans vs. Radicals
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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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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Texas Candidates
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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Students Petition for Public Service Funding
Two students at the University of Florida are working on behalf of the Student Campaign for Public Service (SCPC) are collecting signatures on a national petition asking 2008 presidential candidates to increase funding for public service organizations.
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Students Plan War Protest at RNC
Anti-war activists at the University of Minnesota held a conference on campus this past weekend to discuss protest plans for the upcoming Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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Wisconsin Student Super Delegate
As the democratic nomination remains too close to call, many people are learning for the first time about “super-delegates,” office holders and other prominent democrats who have a vote at the nominating convention that is not tied to a primary outcome.
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Potomac Primary
Yesterday’s primaries in Washington D.C, Virginia, and Maryland markedly changed the direction of the presidential race as Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain took decisive leads in their respective parties.
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Primary Reasons to Party
At Columbia University the Columbia Political Union, College Democrats and College Republicans hosted a watch party on campus for students to watch the incoming results of Tuesday’s primaries.
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Stanford Students Defy State Trends
Although Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain won the state of California’s primaries, exit polls at Stanford University revealed that Stanford students favored different candidates: Barack Obama and Ron Paul.
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Student in Late Primary States Keep a close Eye on Super Tuesday
Despite having to wait months for their state primaries, students at the University of Kentucky and Perdue University spent Tuesday night keeping a watchful eye on the primary results, acknowledged the importance of staying on top of the election as it progresses and expressed their growing excitement as almost half the nation cast their votes for the presidential nominee.
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Youth Vote For Real
Youth voter turnout doubled, tripled, or quadrupled expected turnouts in nearly every state holding their primary on Super Tuesday, proving again that young people across America are actively taking an interest in their country’s future.
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Student Runs for City Council
University of Kentucky sophomore Daniel Burton is running for a seat on the Lexington-Fayette Urban Council representing the 3rd district – which includes most of the university.
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Florida – Not Just Full of Old People
A group of 49 Florida State University students from the College Democrats and Students for a Democratic Society marched from campus to downtown Tallahassee carrying signs and chanting in protest of the Florida Legislature’s decision to move the Florida primary from February 5th to January 29th.
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Super Student Tuesday
As the youth vote doubled – and in some cases tripled – its previous numbers across the early primaries it is becoming clear that the youth vote may play a significant role in determining the outcome of 2008’s presidential election.
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The Students’ State of the Union Address
In response to President Bush’s final State of the Union Address, the University of North Carolina’s student newspaper, The Technician, has compiled their rendition of the State of the Union Address from the perspective of college students.
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The South Carolina Primaries
Republican candidate John McCain wins South Carolina’s primary nomination and begins to look down the road to Florida’s primary, to be held on January 29th.
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WISCONSIN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY MAY REGAIN IMPORTANCE
In most elections cycles, Wisconsin’s presidential primary, which takes place February 19th, two weeks after “Super Tuesday”, would have little impact because both parties would have basically decided on a candidate by then.
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Millennial politics
Are young people today apathetic? Do they engage in politics in a different way than their parents? A new research paper by CIRCLE and a book by a student at Stanford explore the politics of the ‘Millennials.’
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JDebate
Many campuses set up debates between democrats and republicans. At the University of Southern California, the USC Democrats, Republicans and Hillel hosted a debate between representatives from Democrats for Israel and the Republican Jewish Coalition.
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William and Mary Rocks the Vote
The Student Assembly at William and Mary has partnered with Rock the Vote to conduct their 2008 voter registration and get out the vote work.
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Iowa students host mock caucus
In order to prepare and encourage students to participate in the upcoming Iowa Caucuses, the Asian Student Alliance at the University of Iowa hosted a mock caucus.
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Student soldiers reflect
The Stanford Daily profiles two current Stanford students who recently left the armed services. One, Stephen Funk, filed for conscientious objector status while on active duty in 2002 and was the first soldier arrested for refusing to serve in Iraq in 2004.
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Student Voter Registration in California
A coalition of campus groups led by the Associated Students at UC Santa Barbara is working to get students registered to vote before the deadline for the presidential primaries.
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Student groups utilize web for recruitment
Last week UCLA’s Daily Bruin profiled how student organizations are sleeping out overnight for prime tabling locations. This week they look at how student organizations use the internet and tools such as Facebook for recruitment
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Sleeping out to table
Student apathy does not seem to be a problem at UCLA, where student organizations are sleeping out overnight to secure the best locations to table and recruit volunteers the following day.
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Student protest the war
Students organized speak-outs, rally’s and protests to challenge the continuing United States military presence in Iraq.
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Hazing Prevention
The Inter Fraternity Council at Washington State University took its anti-hazing policy a step further by organizing a hazing prevention week.
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Penn Civic Scholars
Fifteen freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania constitute the inaugural class of the Penn Civic Scholars – students who commit to four years of academic and civic education and action.
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Constitution Day
Constitution Day, Monday, passed without notice on most campuses, but not so at Penn State, where students hosted public readings of banned books and registered over 300 students to vote.
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The City You Call Home
Goucher College has reported a significant growth in its student activism over the course of this past year. That activism culminated recently in a three-day, campus-wide, student-organized forum that considered the relationship between the college and Baltimore, the city it calls home.
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Working to Promote Peace
Students from the University of California San Francisco, the University of Texas Austin, and Mt. Hood Community College are doing their best to promote peace.
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Students React to May Day Violence
UCLA students were among those protesting for immigration rights when police attacked protesters on May Day. The UCLA students affected by the day’s events are now planning a forum in response.
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Pictures of You
This year seems have been a flagship year for Boston College students working to translate their understanding into action, and a special series at BC profiles student activists on the campus. The Heights has chosen an activist (or two) to profile from several movements.
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May Day Redux
Along with the contemporary focus on May Day as a day to highlight immigration issues, students also used the day for peace events and traditional worker-justice themed events. These were not without some controversy, however.
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Students Protest Attorney General
A group of law students at Harvard University protested a visit by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, an alumnus of the school, calling on him to resign in the wake of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys late last year.
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Students Memorialize 3,351 Dead
On the four-year anniversary of President Bush’s “Mission Accomplish” banner, members of the Young Democrats, Delta Force, the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, and other students wrote every name of every soldier killed in the Iraq War on campus walkways in chalk.
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Working with PIRG
Students at Syracuse University work with NYPIRG in five areas of advocacy: environmental preservation, good government and voter rights, consumer protection, higher education, and hunger and homelessness.
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Students Confront Race
At the University of Oregon, Princeton University, Swarthmore College, and Washington State University, race relations—or the lack thereof—were prominently in the news.
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More Students Volunteering
After September 11, 2001 the U.S. saw a sharp rise in volunteerism, though that has diminished in 2006. The volunteerism growth rate is still significant among college students, however; the growth rate of student volunteerism between 2002 and 2005 is about 20%—double the “adult” rate.
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More On Anti-War Arrests
A spirited anti-war protest outside the U.S. Armed Forces recruitment station at the University of Texas Austin became serious when two protesters were arrested for criminal trespassing. In Iowa, 11 anti-war protesters—including eight students—are going to trial over their trespassing arrests.
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The Lessons of Tragedy
The initial shock of the Virginia Tech shootings is beginning to wane, and students are starting to apply the lessons they’ve found in the tragedy.
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Campus Discusses Diversity
An article from the University of Delaware examines racial diversity on campus and addresses the problems (and possible solutions) students are identifying.
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This Year’s Dance With Mary Jane
Students at Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, and the University of California Santa Barbara gathered last week to support the legalization of marijuana.
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Students Work for Those Affected By the War
At Indiana University, students with the College Republicans and College Democrats came together to take part in Operation Iraqi Children. tudents from several student organizations at the University of Georgia held a protest to peacefully demonstrate against the War in Iraq.
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Students Protest Affirmative Action Bake Sale
College Republicans held a bake sale in which they charged students different prices (based on race) in order to highlight their issues with affirmative action. everal student groups in favor of affirmative action held a silent protest around the bake sale, outnumbering the College Republicans.
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Students March at Night
Take Back The Night is an event aimed at raising awareness of sexual assault and domestic violence. At Columbia University, the event has gotten more attention since the rape and torture of a student last week.
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Brigham Young University Commencement Seeing Changes, Competition
Brigham Young University will ticket its commencement—and cancel its processional—due to heightened security for speaker Vice President Dick Cheney. College Democrats will be protesting the speech, and others are trying to gather funds for an alternative commencement speaker.
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Students Bring Congresswoman To Campus
Students from Wesleyan University's chapter of the Roosevelt Institution brought a Connecticut Congresswoman to campus for a lecture. At the talk, she was presented with 155 signed letters from students calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
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Grad Student To Walk in Protest
A graduate student at the University of Chicago is pledging to walk about 700 miles, from Chicago to Washington, D.C., to promote political protest as well as call for the impeachment of President Bush.
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Student Groups Protest Walls
Several student groups at Columbia University gathered in a plaza to demonstrate against the security fence in Israel and the one being built along the Mexico-U.S. border.
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Student Support For Romney
More than 300 students from Utah County, including students from Brigham Young University, gathered at a local bank last week to join Students For Mitt, the student arm of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign.
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Exploring Islam
Students at the University of Missouri hoped to raise awareness of Islam as a peaceful religion with their Islamic Awareness Week. A student group at UCLA hosted a panel that discussed the influence of Islamic totalitarianism on Western society, while other students protested the event.
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Three Arrested at GAP Event
Three students at the University of New Hampshire were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct in protest of a Genocide Awareness Project display.
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Minuteman Speech Sparks Protest
The Young Conservatives of Texas hosted a speech by Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group involved in helping in the discovery of illegal border activity. About 30 protesters, including students and community members, gathered to protest the group, which they believe is racist.
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Loyola Students Protest Torture
Students with the Loyola Anti-War Network (LAWN) held a 24-hour vigil against torture as the culmination of their Torture Awareness Week.
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Students Screen Documentary
Several student groups at Ohio State University screened the film “Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.” Organizers actively encouraged those who disagreed with the film (which claims to give an inside perspective on terrorism) to come and voice their opinions.
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Discussing Race Relations
Students at Boston University and Fordham University organized discussions of race relations for their respective communities.
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Early Bird Gets the Worm
About 60 students at Yale University have started a Barack Obama student campaign group, though the election is still about 19 months away.
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The Great Immigration Debate
The NYU student group Coalition for Immigrant Rights butted heads with New Yorkers for Immigration Control when College Republicans invited members of the Minutemen to campus. Several student groups at the University of Texas are trying to call attention to conditions some describe as “inhumane.”
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Students Show Support for Military
The Student Assembly at the College of William and Mary passed a bill to give at least three credit hours per semester to ROTC cadets, and for those credits to count towards graduation. A student at Miami University is beginning new student group to provide soldiers in Iraq with support.
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Got God?
Religion is big in campus papers this week, with Christianity in particular covering feet of the news and editorial pages.
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The Abortion Debate Gets Louder
Students on both sides of the abortion debate demonstrated this week, touching both on the abortion issue and the tactical choices associated with it.
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Conservative Group Aims to Spread Message
The new Stanford Conservative Society hopes to bring together conservative thinkers from a variety of backgrounds and political parties in hopes of sparking discourse at their school, which they perceive as mostly liberal.
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Students to Sue Realty Company
Several students at Ohio State University have teamed up to prepare to file a class-action lawsuit against a local realty company, alleging the company advertised artificially low gas rates to get students to move into one of their complexes.
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Students Honor Cesar Chavez
Every year students pay highly publicized homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.—but students honor other nonviolent civil rights leaders as well.
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Students Show Displeasure with the Military
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Wayne State University met to discuss a new campaign for their school to divest from defense corporations. In a largely symbolic move, the Student Government of American University has voted against the University policy of allowing military recruiters on campus.
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Activism of the Future
Our last issue highlighted the first article in a three-part series on campus activism at Notre Dame University—now parts two and three.
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Student Newspaper Examines Activism
The Observer from Notre Dame University takes a look at students' activism—or lack thereof—in a three-article series. The first in the series examines the current role of activism on campus.
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Dems Remember Troops
The College Democrats at Washington University have set up a memorial for fallen troops.
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like
College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom often claim that conservative viewpoints are underrepresented on campus. At Syracuse University, they teamed up to put their money where their mouths are, bringing the former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to campus. The controversial speaker drew protests, however.
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Special Feature: Generation Me
Jose Requena surveys students’ opinions about a recent study claiming today’s students are more narcissistic than their predecessors.
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Same Day Registration
The Iowa legislature is considering adding Iowa to the ranks of states that allow same-day voter registration. This editorial from the University of Iowa favors the proposed change, offering a line of reasoning on same-day registration’s benefits to students.
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Student Lobbies for Breastfeeding Breaks
A graduate student at the University of New Mexico lobbied the state government for a bill, passed earlier this month, requiring employers “to provide a private, clean space for breastfeeding mothers to pump their milk.”
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English Please
The College Republicans of Washington State University held a pamphleting event to promote English as the nation’s official language, citing efficiency and unity as benefits.
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Mayoral Candidate Only 20
Raul De Jesus, at 20 years old, is the youngest candidate to ever run for mayor in Hartford, Connecticut. He sees himself as a standard bearer for “the political youth movement.”
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Students Lobby for Arts Funding
Students from St. Olaf College in Minnesota were among the 500 artists who lobbied in their state capitol for funding for the arts.
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Student Forum Considers Immigration
Student representatives from the Pace College Republicans, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Project Pericles, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) presented a forum of opinions on the immigration debate at Pace University.
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Japan’s Past War Crimes Cause Debate Among Asian Americans
Demonstrating that it can take generations for the political fallout of wars to end, the Japanese Prime Minister’s recent refusal to acknowledge that women were forced into military brothels during World War II has sparked discussion at Harvard.
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College Republicans Screen Film on Terrorism
The College Republicans of the University of Rhode Island hosted a viewing of a film focused on the idea that the “War on Terrorism” is a battle against an ideology rather than a people.
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Learning About Race
A University of Southern California football player sparked outrage among fellow students when he started a racist Facebook group as an “inside joke.” The Black Student Union of the University of Delaware held a forum on racially themed parties.
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Protests Planned at Home and at the Pentagon
More than 100 students from colleges across Iowa are planning to travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the March for Peace protest commemorating the fourth anniversary of the War in Iraq. On the University of Iowa campus, the UI Antiwar Committee is also planning a March 20 event.
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MSAs Aim to Break Stereotypes
The Muslim Students Association at Texas Christian University held a panel discussion featuring several local Muslim women as part of Islamic Awareness Week. The Muslim Students Association of the University of Colorado Boulder is also holding an Islam Awareness Week.
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Career Fair Source of Protest
Students for a Democratic Society at Brown University protested the presence of Raytheon, a defense contractor, at their school's career fair.
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Concerning Our Veterans
An article from the University of New Hampshire offers a window into the re-entry of a student veteran of the Iraq War into academic life. A two-part series in the Daily Illini explores a lawsuit that alleges that the administration of the College of Business rescinded admission to veterans.
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Party Interrupted
A block party to celebrate Israeli culture was interrupted by protesters at the University of Texas last week.
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Presidential Candidates Appeal to Youth Vote
Articles from the University of California Santa Barbara, American University, and the University of Richmond explore how candidates from the 2008 Presidential campaign are using the Internet—especially social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook—to appeal to younger voters.
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Students Continue to Consider the War
Spirited debate broke out at a University of Buffalo “Anti-War Action”-sponsored event. Students at Texas A & M University protested the Iraq War as White House Press Secretary Tony Snow gave a guest lecture. Macalester College students are planning actions for March 20th.
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New Study Says Voter ID Laws Discourage Voting
The Review of the University of Delaware reports on a new study, conducted by Rutgers and Ohio State Universities, that finds that voter participation decreases in states with voter ID requirements.
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Students Protest Army’s ‘Don’t Ask’ Policy
About 50 students protested military recruitment at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, upset that military recruiters espousing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy must be allowed to recruit on their campus.
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Student Joins Bloomington Mayoral Race
Indiana University senior James Lober has announced his intention to run for Mayor of Bloomington, Indiana. An article from Tufts delves more deeply into student electoral participation from a voting angle.
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Students and the War: Then and Now
Nationwide, student press continued to focus on the debate about the war (and about students’ level of participation in that debate) this week.
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Students Petition for Unisex Bathrooms
Students at Indiana University are petitioning the school to include at least one gender-neutral bathroom in a new building that is currently being constructed.
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Town/Gown Relations Stressed at Columbia
Columbia University’s Black History Month Education Committee organized a panel of Harlem activists working against the University’s current Manhattanville expansion plans.
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Students Violate “Three-person” Rule
In all, thirty-eight students were affected by a late-January crackdown on violators of Williamsburg’s three-person rule. The rule, part of the city’s zoning code, limits the number of unrelated residents in a dwelling to three.
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The Many Faces of Immigration
Immigration and immigrant rights are hot topics again this week, with articles from UC Davis, Arizona State University, and the University of Oregon exploring facets of the issues.
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Students Lobby State Capitols
Students from several states headed to their state capitols this week, lobbying for higher education funding and other issues.
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A Requiem for New Orleans
The University of New Hampshire’s Black Student Union presented the third act of Spike Lee’s documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts."
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V-Week
Many women’s advocacy groups hold V-Week events on or around Valentine’s Day, using “V” to stand for victory, violence, vagina, etc.
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License to Drink
A President Emeritus of Middlebury College and his student research team form the newly incorporated nonprofit Choose Responsibility—a group working to lower the drinking age for those who pass alcohol education courses.
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I Facebook My Presidential Hopeful
This article from Syracuse University examines the increased use of Facebook by political candidates—especially from the crowded field of Presidential hopefuls.
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Muslim Students Mostly United
Anyone who follows international news knows that much has been made of the conflict between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims in Iraq. But within American campus communities, differences between the two are negligible, and a single Muslim Student Association serves both in most places.
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Student Vote Work
In Maryland, both the University Senate and the State Senate are considering measures to simplify student voter registration.
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Roosevelt Institute Chapter at Davis
In 2004, students from Stanford and Yale began the Roosevelt Institute, the nation’s first student-run think tank. UC Davis is the newest addition to the R.I. family, offering Davis students a new entrance into public policy debate.
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Students Lobby in D.C.
A group of 50 NYU students will travel to Washington, D.C. to lobby for U.S. support of Israel.
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Students Support Soldier
A student group at Rutgers University, Rutgers Against the War, held a protest to support Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq.
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College Democrats Hold National Convention
Dartmouth students were among those attending the College Democrat National Convention in Washington D.C. Attendees learned lobbying techniques and the ins and outs of politics, and they met several politicians.
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Student Votes the Maine Concern
There’s big news in Maine, as a bill recently introduced in the Maine state legislature would prohibit students who reside in Maine for the school year—but claim residency in other states—from voting in the state.
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Black History Month
The lack of programming for Black History Month at Boston College has some student groups taking matters into their own hands. At Rutgers, students are using the opportunity of Black History Month to promote the artistic contributions of African Americans.
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Binghamton Goes to D.C.
Coverage of this past weekend’s anti-war protests continues with this article from Binghamton University—which sent two busloads of students and local residents to the capitol.
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Students for the Public Interest
Students for Arizona PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) is an organization that allows student volunteers to hone their advocacy skills while simultaneously helping to raise awareness about issues from textbook pricing to solar power potential.
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Students Protest the War
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered Saturday in Washington D.C. to protest the Iraq War, and local protests were held in cities and towns across the nation. Students participated in both the D.C. actions and local protests, as a small sampling of articles shows.
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What’s Race Got to Do With It?
The sentencing of Nathan Poffenbarger—a student found guilty of a racially-motivated stabbing—has inspired The Cornell Daily Sun to do a series on race at Cornell (which, we’d imagine, is not so different from race at a great many other universities).
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The American Dream
Arizona voters recently passed Proposition 300, a ballot initiative that makes it significantly more difficult for undocumented students to attend Arizona’s state schools.
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A New Alliance
Haverford College’s group the Alliance works to promote racial dialogue on the campus.
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American Reaction
Receptions were mixed across the country when President Bush announced his plan to deploy 21,000 more troops to Iraq; in this article, American University has taken some pains to gauge the reaction of their own community.
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Doctors-to-Be Like Health Coverage Too
The American Medical Student Association (apparently the largest and oldest student-governed independent organization in the nation) organized over 300 California students to demonstrate in support of a state senate bill that would provide universal health care to the people of California.
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Know Your Rights!
This brilliant article from Northeastern covers an oft-neglected aspect of campus life: students’ Fourth Amendment rights.
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Nebraska’s Student Voice
Politicians who listen to students have been few and far between, right? But the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN) has a committee—called the Government Liaison Committee (GLC)—dedicated to representing student interests and concerns to the governing bodies of the city and state.
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Back Draft
Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) has reasserted that the US Military should reinstate a draft for the duration of the Iraq War—a proposition considered in some detail by this article from Colorado State University’s The Rocky Mountain Collegian.
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Minnesota, Meet Iraq
Cati Vanden Breul has written an excellent two-part series for The Minnesota Daily, exploring the impact of the Iraq War on the University of Minnesota campus.
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That’s Debatable
The College Democrats and College Republicans of the University of Connecticut held a completely student-run, student-attended debate this week.
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A Loss for UNH
Ok, we acknowledge that we’re sort of cheating (for the second time this issue) by bringing you news of recent graduates rather than out-and-out students.
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The Cost of War
The feature The Daily Tar Heel of UNC Chapel Hill ran for its readership today considers the impact of the Iraq War on North Carolina, a very “military-friendly state.”
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Made In China
From the University of Kansas comes a good reminder of the social power of art. Twenty-four students traveled with two professors of design to China for a month this past summer.
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Talkin ‘Bout My Generation
During this past election, there was a lot of talk of generations—their characteristics, their echoes, the way civic duty can seem to spontaneously appear and disappear due to a wider generational shift change.
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Election Vices Videoed
Perhaps you heard the buzz about the Video The Vote project this past election. Basically, while voting problems are very rare, they can be devastating (and, some people would point out, they tend to happen in certain kinds of communities, whatever the reason).
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What a Difference a Draft Makes
If you don’t follow politics, here’s what you need to know about the draft: every so often, someone raises the idea that we should have a draft. (That someone is usually a Democrat, and usually New York Congressman Charles Rangel.)
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SDS is Back, and Looking to the Future
Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960s powerhouse of student activism, has made a sudden and fierce return to college campuses. How did this return come about? Are they the same organization? Michaelia Fosses reports.
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Generation Me
Jose Requena surveys students’ opinions about a recent study claiming today’s students are more narcissistic than their predecessors.
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YouthTrain Gears Up for Event
Michaelia Fosses's feature explains YouthTrain, the Center for Progressive Leadership's innovative new model for training student leaders.
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Candidates on National Security
In the post 9/11 age, National Security is high on every American’s priority list. This week NSNS takes a look at the presidential candidates’ stances on National Security.
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