Entries Tagged as 'Our Generation'

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Ghosts of Elections Past: A Political Coming of Age

In the year 2000, I did not recognize the consequences of things. I thought about getting my learners permit, about turning sixteen the next year. I thought about what I wanted to do with my hair color; about different ways to not fit in at school. Despite the fact that I still scribbled anarchy signs […]

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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The Dailey Post: Wait, What? Am I Supposed To…? Wait, What?

Matt Dailey is a correspondent and contributor for The College Voter from Penn State University in Pennsylvania.

I got a letter from my grandmother the other day, and in it was the usual news: the azalea bushes near the side of the house are getting more buds; the postman asked after me last Monday afternoon; the […]

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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

David Brooks Calls College Students Dumb

Is New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks calling college students out? We think so! Today’s essay - “A Speech About Nothing” - has a little-bitchy clause that just irks us. It reads:
A pedagogical revolution has led to ferocious competition to get into the top universities but a decline in quality at the primary and […]

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