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| Roosevelt Institution Debuts Policy Journal on Capitol HillWASHINGTON, D.C. — September 14, 2005 - The Roosevelt Institution, the nation’s first student think tank, will unveil the first issue of the Roosevelt Review—Roosevelt’s national student policy journal—at a press conference on October 3, 2005 in the Cannon Caucus Room at 1:00 p.m. The event will feature presentations by student fellows highlighting their policy research, Roosevelt’s Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Review, and special guests commending the organization’s efforts. Members of the press are encouraged to attend. The Roosevelt Review is composed of eight of the best student policy papers from across the country, ranging in topics from AIDS prevention in Africa, to alternatives to drilling for oil in ANWR, to children’s health insurance. Students’ papers were refereed by screened by an editorial board composed of students and respected professionals in policy-relevant fields. The final eight pieces represent a broad range of creative and hard-hitting policy recommendations. Earlier this summer, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor-in-Chief of The Nation, expressed excitement about the upcoming policy journal: “The Roosevelt Review will marshal the intellectual capital of the smartest students in America and its future leaders. These are times when progressives need fresh and bold ideas. That’s why it’s exciting to witness the emergence of a well-organized, savvy progressive student movement.” The event marks the beginning of the nationwide distribution of the Review. Starting in late September, a team of students hailing from Roosevelt chapters around the country will hand-deliver a copy of the Review to every member of Congress. In addition, 4,000 copies of the Review will be distributed to persons and organizations that contribute to the public policy process, including government agencies, civil-society organizations, media outlets, and non-profits. Added vanden Heuvel, “The Review will soon be must reading for local, state and national policymakers and legislators, for activists, for other think tanks and for all citizens dedicated to learning about progressive solutions to the pressing problems of our times.” The Roosevelt Institution, which has quickly expanded to over 120 colleges and universities around the country since its founding in November, picked the eight articles included in the Review from hundreds of submissions. Future issues are expected to garner thousands, as students learn that their ideas can have a national audience. “I’m excited to get our idea into the public discourse,” commented David Felix, one of the authors of "Extraction vs. Taxation: What To Do With ANWR", an article published in the Review. “The more people who read it, the better a chance there is of actually solving this problem that faces our country.” The Roosevelt Institution is a think tank devoted to bringing the policy research of college students to the attention of academia, media, and government.
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