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| Roosevelt hits ground runningRoosevelt hits ground runningby Scott Greene9/28/06Middlebury's chapter of The Roosevelt Institution rode a wave of momentum into the semester following a successful summer of policy work with the national organization in New York City and Washington, D.C., which included the publishing of a second policy review and the hosting of a national policy exposition. The chapter, founded during February Orientation in 2005, said it hopes to build on its summer success and continue its work as a student-run, progressive policy think tank."This summer I worked in the national headquarters, which moved back from California to the east coast and set up shop in New York," said Jessica Singleton '08.5, founding President of Middlebury's chapter who now works as the national organization's Chapter Media Consultant. Joined by seven other Middlebury students, Singleton and other members of Roosevelt's national organization published the second edition of The Roosevelt Review, an annual policy journal reflecting a year's worth of progressive thinking from chapters across the country. They also hosted a national policy exposition featuring 21 student-fellows from the Roosevelt Institution, a "policy meeting of the minds," which attracted press coverage from CNN.com, the U.S. State Department and Politics T.V. "This summer we had 30 full-time staff in New York City and Washington, D.C. working 14 hour days, seven days a week for the organization and most of us weren't being paid," Singleton said. "It was a very intense summer but very healthy and productive in terms of institutional development and growth." The Middlebury chapter's founding students believe that the organization, originally founded nationwide in November 2004, would allow its participants to actively work towards a more responsible democracy. Policy Coordinator Tarsi Dunlop '09 hopes that the progressive organization will create a society that engages in "active, participator and deliberative self-governance in public, and in private and civic institutions as well." Click here to read the article from Middlebury's website. |
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