DREAMers sit in at John McCain’s Arizona campaign office in 2008. From WIkimedia Commons. President Obama’s new immigration policy could stop the deportations of 800,000 undocumented youth, but the caveats are incredible. To be eligible, one must have come to the United States at least five years ago and must have been under the age of 16, must not be older than 30 now, must be a veteran, high school graduate, or be in school, must have n...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon opened the 2012 Global Colloquium of University Presidents on Wednesday, speaking under the Rotunda of Low Library. Ban Ki-moon addressed the presidents of over 20 leading universities – including Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger, who moderated the event – as well as other members of the Columbia community. His address focused on the topic of this year’s Global Colloquium: the youth population su...
...nued to come out on top. Barcelona was just better. Pep Guardiola was appointed as FC Barcelona’s coach in 2008 after a distinguished career as a FC Barcelona player, and a shorter, but successful, career coaching their youth team. He became the youngest coach to win the Champions League, Europe’s premier tournament, in his first year coaching, and in his next two seasons, Barcelona would only lose three league games (none of them to Madrid...
...ric impacts their people. After all, many of them have been the direct victims of the current presidential regime. They understand better than I do, and I will ever do, that their optimism is part of a huge leap of faith. The youth of Venezuela and their hope of seeing change in power in their country adds value to Capriles’ struggle. Many of them, far away from the country and on the eve of midterms in some of the most prestigious universities,...
...m very content with the progress of the movement so far. We have an organization, which allows the movement to be permanent and effective. The movement is only a month and a half old, and so far we have managed to wake up the youth of the country, which had been asleep for many years. We have scared and made tremble the biggest powers that control Mexico, letting them know that they cannot get away with doing whatever they please any longer. We a...
...tions of whether the state should be appropriating historical events to advance its own political agenda. In fact, the first place Sarkozy made reference to the letter was on the campaign trail last winter. In a speech to the Youth for UMP (Sarkozy’s political party) in 2006, he used Guy’s efforts and experience as an example of the great potential of youth. An adviser to Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, suggested that he continue to allude to Guy and his...
...similar populist narrative, would likely earn the Principlists the support they need. Furthermore, in Choksy’s assessment, Mashaei has been shown to be an agreeable candidate to “intellectuals, artists, entrepreneurs, and the youth,” who underpin the core of Iranian civil society. While the Principlists may not be the reformist party that democratic activists have sought, they seem willing to explore nuanced reformulations of key policies and a p...
...ened). While both sides of the abortion debate still seem to be more or less evenly matched, gay marriage is quite another story – the tide has turned on the issue, driven by growing societal acceptance of homosexuality and a youth demographic that simply does not hold the prejudices and views of their elders. One can only expect the movement for gay marriage to expand in coming years, and with the shrinking influence of evangelicals and the Reli...
...ime catchphrase “Choose or Lose.” The major source of this political frustration, reports MTV president Stephen K. Friedman, is the “wall of the economy,” which did much to dampen political optimism, leading 72 percent of the youth polled by MTV to report that they do not trust the government to take care of their well-being. These sentiments illuminate the very real issue of America’s struggling economy, including concern over growing socioecono...
...d a seat-warmer in former law professor Dmitri Medvedev, and continued to run the Russian show under the guise of Prime Minister. The quality of life in Russia continued to worsen. The Russian population was aging the Russian youth were emigrating at higher rates, and the country was becoming still more economically dependent on oil. Yet the people did not seem to care; political involvement was limited to bikini car washes on behalf of United Ru...
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