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Gates, the Du Bois professor of the humanities, was named the 14th member of the Postmaster General’s Citizens??€™ Stamp Advisory Committee last Thursday...
...their book, Ackerman and Fishkin marshal considerable evidence from past studies suggesting that introducing a national Deliberation Day along these lines may well produce powerful results. Fishkin, in particular, has long experience designing Deliberative Polls, which measure citizens??€™ knowledge of and opinions on key issues before and after they participate in a weekend of moderated deliberation. His research has shown that most participants not only demonstrate greater understanding of the issues after the weekend, but that that this increased knowledge leads a significant percentage, often between five and ten percent, to change their original opinions. If a Deliberation...
...expect control of presidential debates to be wrested from the parties any time soon. But we whole heartedly endorse groups such as Citizens??€™ Debate Commission and Open Debate, which are trying to put a truly independent and non-partisan body back in charge—to make presidential debates less like extended political advertisements and more like Lincoln-Douglass. For the sake of meaningful democracy, we hope they succeed in removing the CPD as sponsor of the presidential debates...
...around the globe. We spent last week unpacking our belongings and digging futons out of storage. The parental units are gone, and with a day left of summer, it seems as though the last strains of a saccharine melody are still ringing in our ears. The clock above the Citizens??€™ Bank proclaims the minutes and hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace of college life. Cambridge is a far cry from rural Canada, where I spent my summer camped in an eastern township...
...distractions—of our collegiate lives. We take part in a self-sufficient ecosystem, a place of intrigue, a cacopolis. Yet almost every student manages to escape the spell by emerging from it during the summer. For now, we must abide by the clock above the Citizens??€™ Bank: it’s seven past the hour, and time to sprint to class...