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...hope that Harvard students enjoyed the event, and that it helped to get the campus HYPEd for politics and Election '96. --Avery Gardiner '97 Chair, IOP Student Advisory Committee --John Turner '97 Vice-chair, IOP Student Advisory Committee
...logistics, Massie Tadjedin '99 worked extensively on the program, Rucker Alex '99 and Danielle Estrada '99 coordinated the student activity booths, and Laurie Puhn '99 and Liz Peters '99 were responsible for publicity. They were helped in turn by a tremendous effort from the students and staff of the IOP; representatives from all the student groups; Rudd Coffey '97, Rob Hyman '98 and others from the Undergraduate Council; and many volunteers from the Class...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Undergraduate Council organized the event that asked campus groups to sponsor awareness booths in which they could display issues important to them. By making it necessary that students visit at least 18 of the booths to enter a raffle, many students were forced to learn more about topics ranging from the lack of women in the United States Senate to human rights violations in Turkey. We are glad that the tone of the booths did not sway far from government issues and that they attempted to show the importance of a having a voice...
...leading both to Winthrop and Eliot Houses, we wish the event had not been as exclusive. In trying to politically empower students by registering them to vote, it would have been more effective if students from the Boston area had been included in this event. We hope that the IOP and the Undergraaduate Council look at the overall mission of the event and not ignore the abundance of college students in the area in future planning. Perhpas we'll see a collaboration with other schools for a more ambitious event by the year...
...HYPE event was a fine first effort. We encourage the IOP and the council to host more rallies like this in the future and to continue working toward increased student participation in elections...