Calling it the biggest thing he has ever done in his entire life, Jesse L. Hunter voted in the Minnesota primaries on Sept. 12. However, Hunter is unlike other voters casting their ballots this year. He is only 17 years old. “They [polling officials] examined my driver’s license and asked for my social security number,”…
There was a new thread started earlier today on the forums asking how we refute arguments against ours, specifically citing those from the National Transportation Safety Board. A response was given to our better talking points, albeit not great responses. But great responses or not, we have to be able to counter them. And whining…
Polling officials allowed 17-year-old to vote Teenager now facing felony charges Eden Prairie, Minn. – September 28, 2006: Calling it the biggest thing he has ever done in his entire life, Jesse L. Hunter voted in the Minnesota primaries on Sept. 12. However, Hunter is unlike other voters casting their ballots this year. He is…
Homecoming, schoolwide reunions, fundraising events, et al… I think it is quite obvious that many high school student councils are only concerned with trivial and low-prioirty events going on in the school. The class presidents are generally the most popular and athletic students of the school. The student body wouldn’t dare elect a student who…
The Asheville Citizen-Times set me up as one of their community bloggers. I’m blogging about my project to add a student adviser on the school board, student rights and student issues at http://miva.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/miva?blogs+blog_id=aking.
After a close election, NYRA’s membership has spoken. The membership has elected Jessica Campbell, Scott Davidson, Zach Hobesh, Alex Hull-Richter, Adam King, Alex Koroknay-Palicz, Keith Mandell, Katrina Moncure, and Pamela Tatz to sit on the NYRA board of directors for the 2006-2007 term. All of the candidates were well qualified, and everyone on this board…
On August 5, 2006, NYRA members met in San Francisco to listen to speakers, hear about the events of the past year, and discuss youth rights with activists from throughout the country. This year’s annual meeting was the best NYRA has ever had. The meeting began with a film entitled Les Enfants Perdus De Tranquility…
On Thursday, July 20, I held a public forum and press conference in downtown Asheville. My goal in doing so was to show the Buncombe County Board of Education how many people actually support having a student adviser on the school board. Members from the media included WLOS-TV, 570 AM WWNC, and Mountain Xpress. All…
Excerpts from a Q and A with Dr. John A. Cagle, Parliamentarian of the Academic Senate and Professor of Communication at California State University, Fresno There is no such thing as a 2/3 majority. The correct language is a 2/3 vote. Majority in law and parliamentary procedure always means “more than half.” Abstentions are never…
USA Today, which is among the country’s most widely circulated publications, recently quoted NYRA’s Executive Director in an article on teen driving. Specifically, the article dealt with a report put out by the National Highway Safety Administration, which presented a biased, anti-youth interpretation of driving fatality statistics aimed at convincing states to make seventeen the…
