IN THE COMMUNITY
New College prioritizes sociopolitical justice and activism
NCF students encourage the campus community to get involved in political issues during the 2020 election cycle, and—of course—go to the polls to vote.
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McNeill has nudged students to further amplify their voices in political matters. She and her staff created New College’s Information Center and partnered with TurboVote to For Rory Renzy, Cristiana Feazell and Marina ThisSidlow, uncertainty civic of deathVoting is as real to a easy To be Black inisAmerica engagement an enduring is to live passion. And theirs BlackisPerson a shared in America make as theitvery airfor students to register, gather absentee ballots and meet primary deadlines. with the fervor that uncertainty has run deeply of death. through It is anNew College’s that gives 61-year us life to “I’m passionate about political activism because I firmly history. inviolable continue on. that everyone should contribute to our democracy,” truth During that the is known 2020 to election every Black cycle,child the threeAnd Novo it isCollegians that, continuingbelieve that makes us Feazell said. “I’m impressed by the students’ passion at New before represented their College—and their generation—as so despised,ardent so they are born. political activists. hated but We persist, we College, create artand andthey make that passion contagious. Voter engagement acts as an effective outlet for that passion.” You “I may haven’t die met a student yet at New College songwho andisn’t story. Sidlow, before your birth. passionate about the most recent political Our issues,” culture saidisFeazell, one of life and joy, ana second-year sociology and philosophy student may die within spirit that will with never the Campus Vote Project, helped host a semi-virtual aYou second-year art history student involved indomitable in the nationwide your house. Campus Vote YouProject—a may die outside student your voter education succumb. program event for National Voter Registration Day in September house. coordinated locally through New College’sSo office we are of Student hated more because 2020—rallying those who students as the fall semester at New College You may die Activities & Campus drinking water. Engagement (SA[u]CE). wish to make us chattel and began. have failed You “New mayCollege, die as an institution, supportsincessantly the intellectually can do “Seeing student participation in activism at New College has from the and curious, foodthat you eat. leaves room for students nothing to be engaged more than look upon givenus mewith a lot of hope for the future of our society—whether You may dieinwalking, politically multiplejogging, ways,” or said runSA[u]CE Assistant awe. WhatDirector rage you mustit feel be students as the only organizing groups to attend a local protest or ning.McNeill. “One of the earliest things I learned Jada thing you from cannot tame, creating our own protests on campus for school-related You may die working at New playing. College is how big advocacy beguile, is for or students. destroy, is the issues,” very thing Sidlow that said. “Political activism is so important to me IYou really maydodielearn at worship. a lot from students about what’s continues happening to influence your because very actions. it is the most substantial way to create change in You maynationally locally, die at work, and because globally.” of work, As your children fawn our society.” Renzy, due Intofact, work. New College students have won numerous to become the awards very thing you wish atothesis rid student in political science and economics, is the chapter president of Democracy Matters at New College. Youtheir for may die political in a cage. initiative and voter turnout. the world New College of. With You may die received national voiceless, accolades from the ALL IN How Campus your culture becomes lessthe campus chapter of the nonpartisan national student Renzy has coordinated petitioning efforts focused on unseen and alone. Democracy Challenge for its high level of student reminiscent voting of what you group, so painstakingly getting corporate money out of politics, and he has organized And your during the death, 2018my election death,(nearly and thetwo-thirds death killed of students and deceived voted). for, how of those The College whom earned come before a platinum and after seal us from ALL yourIN God for achieving on-campus events to engage students in topics such as ranked-choice awill student be another voting rate above 50 percent, as well shrinks as three with every “Bestpassing generation. voting and open primaries. lot of students, myself included, can feel ritualistic in Class Awards” killing placed for theathighest the altarvoting of rateI would amongpity all you but I may “I dieknow doinga so. participating small, public, four-year institutions. powerless at times, especially when they come into contact
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