My group chose our theme for the NYT project to be “politics.” Whether you like it or not, it’s something that surrounds us everyday on a local level, a national level, an international one and even a school level. This wide spectrum can be seen in our collection of articles, including our Bearcat article which covered the last-minute date change for the recent club fair. What’s the connection between a club fair and politics? Well, we saw the club fair to be an example of school politics. Though you may or may not have been affected by this incident, it gives us an idea of how we may be affected by school politics in the future as we continue our time at Baruch.
Covering international politics, I personally chose to write about the possible default (I believe another group has covered how this has been dealt with) as it shows just how important politics are and how many people are actually affected by it. The article discussed how the threat of a default wasn’t only worrisome for the States but nations around the world. At one point, the author writes that foreigners have begun to feel as though Obama was their President too as many of his decisions played such large roles in their own nation’s politics. The only catch is they don’t have a vote. But we do, and we should take advantage of it.
