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...second team, while senior Laura Odorczyk was named as a first-team selection for the second time in her four-year career. Falling in between that first day of training camp and Wednesday’s announcement, though, was a tough 3-13-1 season. Hampered by injuries and youth??there were only three upperclassmen on Harvard’s roster to eleven freshmen—the Crimson struggled to play ninety solid minutes against the league’s top competition. “Having very few upperclassmen and a lot of underclassmen wasn?...
...America’s youth have historically voted at a far lower rate than the general population, but that is beginning to change. Today’s “apathetic youth?? consists of about 27 million eligible voters who understand the importance of voting and political activism—59 percent disagreed with the statement that “political involvement rarely has tangible results.” The youth vote dramatically exceeded expectations in the 2004 election as turnout jumped 11 percentage points from 2000—the highest jump in any age group?...
...University unveiled a new partnership with the federal government’s Indian Health Service (IHS) last week that echoes the goal to educate “English and Indian youth?? outlined in Harvard’s 1650 charter. IHS is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Provost Steven E. Hyman and Charles W. Grim, assistant surgeon general and director of IHS, signed a memorandum of understanding on Feb. 21 announcing that they will be collaborating on an effort to improve the health of the country’s Native American population...
Matisyahu “Youth?? Dir. Marc Webb Picture this exchange: “Have you ever heard Jay-Z?” “No, what’s he like?” “Jay-Z is a male, African-American, Brooklyn-born, rapper!” “Wow! That’s a hilarious and totally unlikely combi-nation! I’ll be sure to listen to him a lot now.” This would be, of course, ridiculous, but the phrasing’s not that...
...think the statistics bear out that the traditionally under-represented and -served—including youth??bear the brunt of the Drug War,” Swerdlow wrote. “Not only in terms of the time they spend behind bars—anywhere from one to five to ten to twenty to fifty years—but the life-long consequences that come with a conviction on a marijuana charge...