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Article: Where's the party? (political participation by young people)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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I'm young, I'm Ivy League-educated, and I'm politically disenfranchised. When I graduated from college this past December, I thought that I would assume certain social responsibilities. But the conventional American political institutions-namely, the political parties-can't use me. I don't know what gave me the idea that they could. Maybe it was the fact that I graduated in the top 2 percent of my class or that I won the only award that the political science department gave out for the study of American politics. Maybe 'it was when I was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. But it seems that an of my academic achievements were self, indulgent tripe. When I went to the campaign ...