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In a move designed to give students more of a voice in their education, the Cambridge City Council has rightly decided to give 17-year-olds the right to vote in city council and school committee elections. If the state approves the council’s petition, Cambridge will become...
Fourteen black and Latino student groups from across the University collected more than 400 signatures yesterday in a campus-wide petition drive urging Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to stay at Harvard.
The measure came into Monday night’s council meeting with the endorsement of the school committee, which voted 5-2 last Tuesday to support the petition.
Cambridge already has another petition on voting eligibility currently pending with the state legislature, which would allow immigrants to vote in school committee elections. Several councillors had previously expressed concern that a petition to lower the voting age would distract from the immigrant voting petition, but Monday night councillors said...
And in the meantime, the students said, they plan to begin lobbying the state Senate to approve the city’s petition for a 17 year voting age because they feel the Senate would be more receptive than the House, said Paul H. Heintz, a CRLS student and co...