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The national organizations of the Young Democrats of America and College Democrats of America will each send two superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Until now, all four of those superdelegates have remained uncommitted, but today YDA’s Crystal Strait announced for Obama.
<b>Correction, May 19:</b> YDA has three superdelegates. Two of the three have endorsed — Strait chose Obama, as noted above, and Francisco Domenech endorsed Clinton in January. YDA president David Hardt has announced that he will make no endorsement before the end of the primaries.
As we noted last week, the US Supreme Court recently upheld Indiana’s strict voter ID law, raising concerns about the disfranchisement of out-of-state college students. Reports from yesterday’s primary voting suggest that those concerns were at least partially warranted.
College students often vote in their college communities but maintain driver’s licenses from their states of origin. Under Indiana law, out-of-state licenses are not valid ID for voting.
Public university students with out-of-state licenses were able to vote without incident yesterday, as their college ID cards are regarded as “state-issued” identification for the purposes of the law. Student PIRG poll-watchers did, however, report a number of incidents in which private-college students were turned away. One PIRG representative further noted that news of the stringent ID requirements likely kept some students away from the polls altogether.
A new Harvard University study finds a major uptick in youth political engagement. The study’s authors expect to find “significant, if not, record” increases in youth voter turnout this fall, and show Obama with commanding leads against both Clinton and McCain.
Much more at the above link.
This month is the 40th anniversary of the Paris uprisings of 1968, launched by students and quickly joined by workers and others. Here’s a pretty good short introduction to those events, and to their place in cultural history.
University of Illinois junior Frank Calabrese, 20, lost his campaign for student body president earlier this month. So now he’s running for the Illinois House of Representatives.
Illinois House District 103 includes the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana, and nearly half its constituents are UI students. The district has been represented by Democrat Naomi Jakobsson since 2002, and Calabrese is running as the nominee of the Republican party.
The UI student body president is selected by the campus student senate. Calabrese, a three-term student senator, placed last in a three-way race for the presidency in an April 3 election.
studentactivism.net 
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