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...MASSPIRG, an advocacy organization that promotes hazardous waste clean-up, said the W.R. Grace site needs to be cleaned up more...
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...feeling that cial voting was no longer a viable way of influencing the direct of federal policy. Their apathy is not because of ignorance but because of despair. "Students today feel very alienated from the traditional political system," says Beth Pardo of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG) "They see themselves not as citizens but as students, so they don't have to fulfill their civic responsibilities...
...trying to activate dormant student power is by increasing the visibility of registration drives, targetting campus populations for special attention. Such effort are underway today--in the local area, the Institute of Politics is hosting a "registration fair" next Tuesday, and MassPIRG is sponsoring its own registration symposium for Boston-area students next weekend...
Resolutions were also passed at the convention unanimously urging Reagan to run for reelection, supporting the "Solomon Amendment" which ties student aid to draft registration and opposing mandatory funding of MassPIRG. a student-run consumer research group...