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...Ireland is infected—well, you’re either one tribe or the other, one guy or the other guy. Your calling as a humanist, as an intelligent creature, is to outstrip the conditions which you are landed with, to get some vision of a cultivated, tolerant, civic society. No matter how well-disposed you are, no matter how personally irreproachable your political or religious attitudes, you dwell in a place which is troubled. You’re answerable to that, especially when violence erupts, and lives are being lost, and lives are being taken...
...hoped to spark debate within the school on these issues, said Houston Institute Communications and Events Director Colin M. Ovitsky. Last night, that dialogue included a discussion of current student activism at Harvard. April Yvonne Garrett, moderator of the event’s panel discussion and the president of Civic Frame, an organization that frames issues of civic awareness through films and other media, said that “today’s college students don’t know how to organize.” Hamm concurred, saying that in part, students don’t have enough time...
...have found some evidence of a growing ‘class gap’ in civic involvement in America, with younger Americans from well-off backgrounds increasing their participation in politics and society, while kids from the wrong side of the tracks are increasingly dropping out,” wrote Putnam, who founded the Seminar in 1995, in an e-mailed statement. “This generous new grant will help us better understand the dimensions of this problem, and to explore its origins...
According to Sander, he and Putnam will be using the grant to analyze data collected by the U.S. government on civic participation, a study he said he expects will take two or three years...
...Corporation for National Service, a federal agency that works to foster volunteering and civic involvement in the United States, is awarding the grants as a way to attract top researchers to study government data on volunteering and civil engagement, according to Corporation spokesman Sandy Scott...