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...common occurrence. Free fall concerts at Harvard--maybe once in a blue moon. This year, however, the stars have aligned and all three anomalies--voter registration, sun and pleasant grooves--have descended on our fair campus on the same day. The name of this celestial twist of fate is HYPE (Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment) and it is an opportunity that you shouldn't miss...
Putting light-heartedness aside, however, HYPE does have a serious mission. Voters in the 18-24 age bracket are historically the least participatory segment of the voter population and therefore the least likely to have their concerns taken up in the political arena. Whether or not our next president addresses issues on the youth agenda will depend to a large extent on whether the youth vote is mobilized next month. And, with polls consistently showing the candidates in a statistical dead heat, your vote matters in this election more than ever...
...Hype and glory don't usually go hand in hand. At the Toronto Film Festival last month, the gritty, low-budget Vietnam-era drama Tigerland (which opens in theaters this week) arrived nearly unnoticed. By the end it had emerged as the festival's biggest surprise, and its heretofore unknown star, Colin Farrell, 24, had critics using words like "James Dean" to describe his performance as Bozz, a rebellious Texan recruit who helps his boot-camp buddies in Fort Polk, La., avoid Vietnam combat. A native of Dublin, Ireland, who dropped out of high school to study acting, Farrell...
...purpose [of HYPE day] is to energize and excite Harvard students about the upcoming election," Schwartz said...
...know, Cheney and Lieberman looked and sounded about as exciting as a school board meeting - low-keyed and matter-of-fact. That is what was attractive about the encounter: It seemed like the best of the American system - civic-minded, without the idiocies of ego and hype that have contaminated the battle of the inadequate sons...