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...from reasonably well-off backgrounds. This is significant not because such specimens are not dedicated and intelligent people—they usually are—but because diverse people bring with them diverse views, vital to a healthy political system. If the new leadership wants to fulfill the IOP??s goal of inspiring all backgrounds of students to public service, it needs to do more to spark the interest of under-represented groups...
...strategy. The most recent initiative to establish ties with several black student groups, for example, will not get off the ground if the IOP continues to assert full control over its old “identity.” Fulfilling such a role need not diminish the IOP??s own priorities and programs; it would merely expand its range...
...IOP??s Harvard Political Union (HPU) calls itself “the foremost venue for political debate at Harvard,” yet its most regular event is a weekly moderated chat with pizza—no doubt enjoyable, but somewhat missing the point. HPU Chair C.R. Sincock ’07 explained that he fears that more-formal debate, à la the Yale Political Union, would intimidate students and act as a “turn-off.” However, given that it attracts a weekly turnout of about 30 of the same students?...
...which serves as a nonpartisan liaison between Harvard students and political figures of all stripes, rarely sets foot in the politics of its own city. The IOP has hosted “Hardball” tapings and policy forums broadcast on C-SPAN. But the president of the IOP??s Student Advisory Committee says the organization is not planning any events that include this year’s Cambridge City Council candidates...
...IOP??s director, Jeanne Shaheen, who technically has the final say on selecting fellows, said that most of the fellows had already been selected by the time she became head of the IOP on July 1, as a permanent successor to former IOP director Dan Glickman. Shaheen, a former New Hampshire governor and Kerry campaign chair was a 2003 IOP fellow herself...