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...Institute of Politics released a new Web-based initiative this week called “No Vote, No Voice” in an effort to increase youth voter turnout during the 2008 primary elections. The project, spearheaded by IOP Director James A. Leach, aims to provide an easy-to-use Web site targeted at facilitating and increasing student involvement in next year’s campaigns and elections. “We are trying to establish a Web site that will be one-stop-shopping for youth political activism,” said Leach. “For people...
Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth M. Kanter told an audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) last night that successful presidential campaigns must be based on optimism, not fear-mongering. Kanter was the guest of honor at a panel discussion entitled “American Principles and 2008 Presidential Politics.” Kanter, whose book “America the Principled: Six Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again” was published in October, said the country is in “a time of gloom.” Kanter faulted many of the current presidential...
Worse, the IOP inculcates a worrisome catechism of centrism in its followers. The maxim of political involvement IOP-style is to mold yourself into just the right mixture of sensible sentiments and professional suavity. Of the nineteen members of the IOP’s Student Advisory Council, for example, only four choose to identify as “liberal” or “conservative” on their Facebook profiles. Nine, apparently, have no political views whatsoever...
Should Harvard, then, simply dissolve the IOP? Hardly. The IOP’s component groups—especially those farthest from its administrative core—produce meaningful work, especially when engaged on the streets and in communities. And the fiscal and networking apparatus of the IOP’s adults serves a function in helping independently motivated students with its grant-writing and publishing programs...
...IOP as a catch-all excuse for politics on campus needs to end if the political patient is to come off the table with a new lease on life. Unfortunately, for now, it seems that the “Institute” side is handily outweighing the “Politics?...