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Huang said he was particularly proud of his work organizing ten youth leadership conferences nationwide. He said the conferences, sponsored by the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and the Organization of Chinese Americans, were designed to help build self-esteem among minority youth...
With the help of the Institute of Politics, Youth Vote will hold a three-day conference at Harvard (February 16-18) to train 600 campus and youth leaders in techniques they can use to register voters and increase political awareness in their communities. These leaders represent a wide range of organizations, from student governments to public service groups...
...would like to lend our full-fledged support to Youth Vote, which seems a solid, well-thought-out attempt to combat voter apathy in the United States. And voter apathy is certainly a problem. According to conference organizer Ivan Frishberg, who is also higher education advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the overall voter turnout in the 1992 presidential election was 63.1 percent, and the turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds was only 43 percent. Turnouts for non-presidential elections are usually much lower...
...simply registering people does not ensure that they will turn out to vote, nor does it ensure that they will be capable of voting in an informed manner. Therefore, we hope that the Youth Vote conference will succeed in tackling the difficult task of teaching its participants to effectively bring the issues back to their communities. Voter registration is one thing, but creating a well-informed citizenry is entirely different...
...would like to urge all members of the Harvard community, even those who have never heard of Youth Vote '96, to take a more active role in politics. Perhaps politics will never again stir popular excitement as it did when the country was young, but we can certainly work to make it an integral part of Americans' lives...