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...national survey of college students conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) has found that undergraduates choose community service over political activism as a vehicle for social change...
...many, though, discerning which club will prove the best platform off of which to launch a political career is a critical matter worthy of serious contemplation. Some of the choices are obvious. At the IOP, says Treasurer Josh I. Weiner ’03, one can locate “more wannabe senators than you could shake a stick at.” For those with strong partisan views, the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club are, according to Kastner “the best place to be” if you want to run for office. Model...
Sarokhan thought carefully before choosing the Harvard Republican Club, the IOP and the rugby team as his extracurricular commitments. “I’m not going to lie,” he says, “[politics] has been on my mind. The older you get, the more you think about how what you do is going to affect your future...
That alternative is apathy. According to a recent IOP survey, college students are increasingly disillusioned with politics. This disillusionment is a bedfellow of distrust: The survey found that 64 percent of students don’t trust the government to “do the right thing.” Another 74 percent of students believe politicians are “motivated by selfish reasons...
...pressure is going to be that they are going to have to deliver,” said Butler, a fellow at the IOP and vice president of Domestic and Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. “The American public is not forgiving...