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...actors in this week’s production of “This Is Our Youth?? shuddered as they watched themselves in a video-taped dress rehearsal. Their shyness was underserved: even in a casual run-through, they succeeded admirably...
...funny thing is, nothing’s really changed since then,” says Jake Barnett, a cast member, pinpointing the appeal of “This is Our Youth?? for today’s audiences. Barnett, a senior at Brandeis College, is traveling to Harvard to play Warren, a troubled and spineless teenager and one of the play’s three characters. Jason L. Glick, GSE ’05, also the director, plays Warren’s counterpart, Dennis, and Sarah E. Stein ’08 takes on the role of Jessica...
Glick had seen “This is Our Youth?? in England in the early 1990s, and it stuck with him. When he formed a drama society at the Graduate School of Education this fall, filling a drama dearth there, he realized he had a chance to direct the play...
...such moment happened for me on a Saturday morning in February 2003. That morning, a woman named Diana Aubourg was giving a talk to the W.E.B. DuBois Society program—an academically rigorous Saturday school program of African and African American studies for gifted and talented black youth??for which I tutor. Aubourg, director of program development in Africa for the Pan-African Children’s Fund and a scholar of development studies with a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave an in-depth and impassioned presentation on the extent...
...youth vote is up, but the chaos and confusion of the campaign turns many youth voters off at the most opportune time to draw them into the democratic system. Unfortunately, this national problem is replicated here at Harvard—just replace “youth?? with “freshman.” But unlike at the national level where there is no quick fix, the current system for electing first-year Undergraduate Council representatives can—and must—be drastically improved...