From Details magazine, of all places, comes a profile of gay 21-year-old Marquette University undergrad Jason Rae, the youngest superdelegate to this month’s Democratic National Convention.
We met a bunch of amazing folks at the USSA Congress last week, and we’ll be passing along news about the great work they’re doing in the days to come. To start the ball rolling, here’s a blog that a student from Massachusetts clued us in to: For Student Power. It’s not updated all that frequently, but the stuff that does go up is worth the wait.
If any of our new readers (or old friends) have suggestions for links, pass them along in comments. Thanks!
The United States Student Association Congress is underway this afternoon in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ll be arriving there late tonight, and staying through until the bitter end. If any of my readers are going to be there and would like to meet up, keep an eye out, or have one of the USSA staff point me out.
I’m hoping to get a chance to post on the Congress from the scene. If I don’t, look for a wrapup after I return, and increased posting frequency thereafter.
According to the folks at FairVote, student governments at more than half of the thirty highest-ranked colleges and universities in the US News & World Report poll use instant-runoff voting (IRV) in their elections.
With IRV, voters rank candidates by preference, and when the candidate in last place is eliminated, the second-place choice votes from that candidate’s ballots are distributed among those remaining. The process is repeated until one candidate receives majority support. IRV eliminates the need for runoff elections while allowing supporters of candidates who finish behind the leaders to have a say in the final outcome.
FairVote claims that campuses switching to IRV tend to see significant increases in turnout in student government elections.
As we reported last month, the student government of Toronto’s York University has voted to deny recognition to campus groups that oppose abortion rights. Now comes word that one such group, Students for Bioethical Awareness, is challenging the ban as a violation of the campus’s code of student conduct.
studentactivism.net 
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