Word: citizenship
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...playing in front of a few thousand people regularly.”After Wintner’s years with Canada’s junior hockey team and even a brief stint with Slovakia’s Under-18 hockey team (Wintner was born in Slovakia and retains Slovakian citizenship), a recurring hip injury finally forced him to give up on competitive hockey for good. But though Wintner had to forego his hockey career, this jack of all trades refused to say goodbye to sports.“Playing all the different sports helped develop my athletic abilities a little...
...think about his presentation, Petersen boldly, but respectfully, remained faithful to the very students he was elected to represent by the basic core of his argument. With rhetorical flourish, Petersen said: “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must...
...However, declaring that Petersen’s speech was poorly timed is an excuse for ignoring the much bigger issue it brings up: student citizenship. At the very least, do we have a right, as men and women of Harvard, to real representation in issues that affect us? Be courageous like Petersen...
...speech itself, it was polite, if unpolished. The purpose was to fault the lack of student input in administrative decisions, which he associated with citizenship, as in: “This denial of citizenship must end now!” (Polite, somewhat confused, applause.) From “one president to another,” Ryan A. Petersen ’08 continued, possibly without irony, “change does not come easily to these hallowed grounds...
...when it came to spending, his consultants were as prudent as the pork-peddling legislators he likes to deride. But there was a substantive reason for his failure: his support for a comprehensive immigration bill - the one he co-sponsored with Ted Kennedy - that would provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million immigrants here illegally. "I got the message," he told a town meeting in Hopkinton, N.H. "Americans want the border secure. I will secure it." Which seemed to satisfy most of the audience...