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Democratic groups push for young voter turnout
- News Herald (new window)
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2008-02-18 |
| Political activists share same goal on getting youths to polls but differ on whom they support. | |
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Pizza and Jazz: Oberlin's Community Service Fair
- Oberline Review (new window)
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2008-02-15 |
| Non-profit organizations from across northeast Ohio set up tables at Tuesday's Community Service Fair with the hope of enticing Obies to volunteer. More than 20 organizations competed for student volunteers. | |
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Card Firms Lure Students; Experts Urge Crackdown
- Toledo Blade (new window)
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2007-10-14 |
| Credit-card companies swarm college campuses and their fringes armed with gifts, food, financial advice, and often money for the schools or their alumni associations, in an effort to sign up new (and soon to be wage-earning) customers. | |
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Law Impedes Student Votes
- The Oberlin Review (new window)
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2006-10-06 |
| Students opened their OCMR mailboxes last week to find yet another reminder to vote in the upcoming Nov. 7 election: a voter registration form accompanied by an absentee application form. This is but one example of the November Committee campaign's work. | |
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Community College Students Courted as Potential Voters
- The Beacon Journal (new window)
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2006-09-03 |
| At pizza parties and rock concerts, public interest groups are trying to turn hard-to-reach community college students into voters, encouraged by an increased turnout of young voters in 2004. | |
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Research Group Warns Parents About Potentially Dangerous Toys
- News Net 5 (new window)
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2004-11-23 |
| NewsChannel5's Alicia Scicolone reported that a local trauma expert teamed up with the Ohio Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) to get the word out about dangerous toys. PIRG's reports have lead to more than 120 consumer product recalls. But its researchers have also found that in spite of their warnings, some toys are still on store shelves. | |
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