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...athletes traded in their spots on the sidelines for seats at the political roundtable last night, trading jabs over the approaching presidential election at “Jock the Vote,” a niche debate sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP) and H-Vote...
...discussion was moderated by Chris Nowinski ’00—currently a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) grappler known as “Chris Harvard” and formerly a member of the Harvard football team—who has become a familiar face at the IOP thanks to his participation in the “Smackdown Your Vote” youth voter awareness program. Nowinski said that he had taken part in several similar events nationwide, and hoped that the Harvard athletes would engage in more substantive discourse than that which he had previously encountered...
...campaign for State Representative here in the 25th Middlesex District (which includes all of Harvard University’s Cambridge campus). I have also remained in touch with my friends who are still active in the Harvard College Greens, and I even received an e-mail from the IOP inviting the Greens to co-sponsor an event about third parties this September. I was pleased to see that the IOP had not forgotten the Greens, and I forwarded the e-mail to a currently active member of the Harvard Greens. The Greens later sent the IOP a reply noting that...
...Greens did not receive a reply. A week later, the Greens sent another e-mail making a clear and detailed request that the IOP consider hosting or co-sponsoring a debate between Wolf and Johnson. This e-mail, dated September 27th also has yet to receive a reply. The Greens were in touch with me throughout this process because I had been chiefly responsible for contact with the IOP during my time as an undergraduate. But it did not seem to me that it would be appropriate for me to get personally involved, since I have graduated and also because...
Recent events, however, have pushed me to become more involved in the IOP’s complete failure to respond to the Greens’ repeated requests. I learned on October 13 that the IOP will be co-sponsoring an event featuring Representative Wolf, entitled “Students Matter for Cambridge.” I was dismayed by the IOP’s decision to co-sponsor this event in light of the organization’s failure to so much as reply to the Greens’ request for an event featuring both candidates, and I was disgusted...