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...Dershowitz quipped, “I spent months preparing for this; I took a leave of absence to get ready.” Organizer Philip A. Ernst ’06, Vice President for Education at Hillel and also a Crimson editor, said he was very pleased with the turnout. Emil Pitkin ’09 said of the trial, “It was a remarkable pleasure to be in the presence of two scholars and entertainers who represented the craft...
After receiving a smaller-than-expected student turnout for a national April 10 rally against the legislation, Cristina A. Herndon ’06, former vice president of Fuerza Latina, and SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 turned to intergroup collaboration in order to most efficiently galvanize support...
...undergraduates will prevent it from being a Springfest-esque kiddy carnival that leaves 20-year-olds bored and disinterested. It will take place in the Yard, a much larger and more communal location than the MAC quad. Most dining halls will be closed, a technique that helped increase turnout to the Harvard State Fair...
...century," says Elizabeth Garrett, director of U.S.C.'s Initiative and Referendum Institute. "People are dissatisfied with federal leadership, and voting is the best way they know to voice it." Lawmakers rarely take heed of such ballot measures, but maybe they should. The initiatives bring voters to the polls--turnout in Baraboo, Wis., tripled this election cycle. "More votes," says Garrett, "is a message politicians on every level understand...
...1930s is a discomfiting reminder of the country's geriatric tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters, nothing that stimulates me as a young person." Voter turnout, though still well above U.S. standards, has been edging downward in every national election since...