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...several years without thinking about that aerial photograph. Last week, though, I was forcibly reminded of it. As part of a get-out-the-youth-vote drive, a couple of well-intentioned seniors arranged for everyone in Winthrop House to wear T-shirts that said “I Decide?? on Wednesday. We’d then march to the Weeks Footbridge to take a photograph of us massed there, thus reminding everyone of the importance of the youth vote. Also, more T-shirts would be sent to Penn State. There were posters all over Winthrop House...
...Houses at Harvard and other ‘partner’ schools in the swing states where votes will count more this election.” Winthrop House is the first to take an active role in this partnership project, raising funds to ship 500 “I Decide?? shirts to Penn State students—yet we hope it is not the last. Project coordinators hope to create a much broader coalition with state colleges—Florida State and Ohio State topping the list—under the umbrella...
...while the project’s focus is on those from the likes of Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, it is not only swing-state students who stand to benefit from the “I Decide?? reminders. Students from Massachusetts, California or New York—states whose electoral votes are hardly contested—also need to be encouraged and reminded to vote in their respective elections. Too often, students wash their hands of an election before it comes to pass, as they assume their vote “doesn’t count?...
...important issues such as same-sex marriage bans, drug policy reform and changes in funding for education and health care. With such highly contested issues appearing on state ballots, it’s likely that—if encouraged and reminded by projects such as “I Decide??—more students will assert their civic duty this election...
...start of the school year, many student organizations have made diligent efforts to encourage student voters. The Institute of Politics has succeeded in registering hundreds of student voters, as well as helping ensure that any interested student has access to information about absentee ballots. “I Decide?? is yet another admirable project to continue these efforts to enfranchise youth voters. In an election often cited as the most crucial race in recent history, any effort to boost voter turnout ought to be lauded...