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...State Department official defended U.S. policy in Lebanon, while some audience members said that the Bush administration hadn’t done enough to promote peace in the region, in a videoconference discussion hosted by the Institute of Politics (IOP) Friday. The videoconference featured Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the director of the State Department’s Office of Egypt and the Levant, whose purview includes Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Washington, D.C. at the time of the conference, she spoke with students and faculty using telecommunications equipment recently acquired by the IOP. Abercrombie-Winstanley, who headed the U.S. task force...
...former Bush administration officials will serve as visiting fellows at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this semester. Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and former New Jersey Governor, will arrive on campus Dec. 4, and Michael J. Gerson, the former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who coined the term “axis of evil,” will be on campus for several days in mid-October. “It’s great to have two such high profile Republicans at a time when there?...
Panelists at a forum on the Darfur genocide urged audience members yesterday to become activists for the peaceful resolution of the on-going conflict. The forum, “Advocating for Darfur,” held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), was moderated by Rebecca Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hamilton opened the discussion by asking the panelists to explore the effects of the lesser-known conflict in South Sudan on the current crisis in Darfur. Rev. Gloria White Hammond, a pediatrician in Boston...
...four years. Rather than encouraging colleges to institute mandatory civics courses, which might only delay a drop-off in knowledge retention four more years, the ISI should help promote ways of keeping political engagement alive outside the classroom. Extracurricular political organizations like Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), which coordinates political activities and sponsors speakers and events, offer students an applied learning experience that is unlikely to be replicated in high schools. Raising the profile of groups like the IOP will do much more for improving civic awareness among students than the ISI’s prescription...
...Institute of Politics’ (IOP) 40th Anniversary celebration last Friday, Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 said that the Bush administration’s approach to politics is contrary to values that prevailed when the IOP was founded. Kennedy said that the current administration’s policies were based on the “politics of fear,” citing the president’s approval of domestic wiretapping, the war in Iraq, and human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay. “Their aim was simply to stoke the fear...