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...week after election day this year, the non-believers have been proven wrong. Barack Obama, the prophetic voice of hope crying in the partisan political wilderness, has reinvigorated Americans’ interest and engagement in the electoral process and especially inspired the once-lukewarm faith of the youth. And, like many converts, these youth—especially at Harvard—have expressed their new-found creed with an excess of zeal...
...While the absurdities and excesses of Obama supporters’ joyous effusion may prove an amusing object of contempt for the many not similarly thrilled by last Tuesday’s outcome, the new President’s pseudo-religious following among the youth may prove a dangerous precedent...
...issues, while central and fiercely debated and disputed even on the field of battle, ranked second in dignity and priority to higher concerns. To a pious Christian, politics cannot provide a final solution because it only is concerned with this world, which is always passing away. But to American youth, immersed in a self-consciously and radically secular culture, especially at a place like Harvard, the precepts and promises of religion have diminished appeal. Limiting their perspectives to this world, youth understandably can see politics—once shorn of the ostensible cynicism of the older generations?...
...story, "For Purcell, a Career of Focusing on Youth," stated that IOP Director Bill P. Purcell was a state senator in Tennessee. In fact, he was a state representative...
...take their votes for granted. “We need to realize that recently, over half the people on campus couldn’t vote. It’s a shocker,” Powers says. By paralleling past and present political movements, the exhibit reinforces the importance of youth activism. “We’re in college. It’s our first real chance to get heard,” Mmopi says. “We need to remember that someone else made this freedom possible. Someone else invested in the mission and it paid...