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Graduate student Stephen Stose, who himself took the pledge as a senior at Manchester, first alerted Harvard students to the idea earlier this year. Stose contacted several student leaders via e-mail, asking them to bring the pledge to the attention of Harvard seniors. Stose is working with students at...
The Harvard group plans to make its major push during senior week when representatives will be tabling at Quincy and Cabot Houses. Organizers will be handing out pledge sheets and ribbons to seniors during breakfast and lunch.
Will the pledge catch on? Stevens says she will sign it when she graduates--but she is concerned about the pledge's future at Harvard.
"Hopefully we can keep it going over the next couple of years," Stevens said. Unfortunately, experience warns that the pledge may lose steam over the years, she said.
But isn't this what everyone wants? The difference is that Powell decided to use his credibility and celebrity to bring it about, to come up with one plan for how 400 different groups should "take the hill." Celebrating its second anniversary, America's Promise is on its way to...