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...unprecedented number of voters turned out for last week’s Institute of Politics (IOP) elections, choosing candidates that plan to work more closely with Harvard’s campus groups while continuing the national outreach program the IOP began last year...
Around 110 students squeezed into Littauer 150 at the Kennedy School of Government last Thursday, with about an additional 30 students voting by absentee ballot, according to outgoing IOP Treasurer Emily L. Nielson...
...heard it here: Howard Dean is against the Right to Work. Last Monday at the IOP, Dean explained his opposition to “Right-to-Work” laws. To anyone who doesn’t know what that means, it sounds intuitively like a terrible position to have, and I’m sure the Republicans will take full advantage. But lest anyone think that Right-to-Work means the same thing here as in Italy, where people actually have a constitutional right to a job, it’s a very different thing. Right-to-Work legislation...
Beyond the dubious nature of this specific trip, which cost the IOP an estimated $2,400, the situation demonstrates the necessity of a formal policy that clearly defines what kind of research and activism should be funded by the IOP...
...address whether funding for protests is ever appropriate and should contain general regulations (as Undergraduate Council project grants do) that require some form of product or summary to be issued. Although flexibility should undoubtedly exist, as the Staff suggests, a codified policy would have helped make clear to the IOP administration the nature of Hayden’s trip and would have subjected it to the further scrutiny it required...