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Five of the seven fall fellows from the Institute of Politics (IOP) gathered to discuss paradoxes inherent in public service with students in the Dunster House Junior Common Room yesterday evening. The panel members, who represented both sides of the political spectrum and hailed from different professional backgrounds, including journalism, said they were concerned that a campaign mentality can interfere with good governance. All agreed that the current presidential administration has tried to govern with tactics generally used while campaigning. They disagreed on the causes and effects of this phenomenon, though, and even differed on the merits of such...
...speech’s centrist overtones, he took care to include progressive themes. “Being part of the sensible center does not mean that we have to get rid of our progressive ideals,” he said. Warner came to campus as a guest of IOP Fellow Adam Nagourney, the national political reporter at the New York Times, and spoke to a group of Harvard College Democrats. The Harvard Dems sent 18 undergraduates to Virginia this fall to knock on doors and phone bank for Tim Kaine, who was lieutenant governor under Warner and is now governor...
College students are more politically active but less confident in the current political establishment than in the past, according to a national survey carried out by students at the Institute of Politics (IOP) and published yesterday. Speakers last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government cited optimistic trends in the data. “This is very much a youth-driven survey which shows that young people do care about politics,” said IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen, who moderated the event. The survey found that only 41 percent of college students...
...IOP Summer Stipend and Director’s Fellowship
...Frontier,” Kennedy challenged Americans to “be pioneers” and embrace the opportunities that laid in the turbulent times ahead. “His appeal was really very much to young people,” said Jeanne Shaheen, who is director of the IOP and co-chair of the New Frontier Awards Committee. “He tried to encourage young people to get involved in government and public service. We think it’s important to recognize young leaders as role models, as the future leaders of this country who are working...