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This is not a personal blog.  However, as school lets out and the three of us (Eftychis, Ryan and Zach–the founding partners of NSP) find ourselves engaged in other endeavours over the summer, I think it’s important for us to keep our readers abreast of happenings that may affect the frequency of posts on New School Politics.

Politics is a passion for us and because of that we further our individual political interests in many other ways.  In late June, the three of us attended the American Legion’s Boys’ State program, one designed to allow students to learn via a hands-on government simulation.  We’ve been around since then, working and doing odd jobs, but our ability to work on NSP is going to change for the next month.  

Here’s what the three of us will be doing in the up coming weeks:

Ryan has been chosen to attend Boys’ Nation in Washington, DC from July 20-28.  The aforementioned Boys’ State program runs in 49 states (Hawaii does not participate) and, at the end of their week, each state choses its two top delegates to represent the state at Boys’ Nation (the national equivalent of Boys’ State). This year Ryan has the honor of being one of the two Boys’ Nation Senators to represent Connecticut.  There were articles written in both of our town’s newpapers. (Here’s the better one from Ken Partridge of the Greenwich Post).  Ryan will be meeting with national politicians such as Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito as well as President Bush as well as one of CT’s US Senators (Dodd or Lieberman) individually. He will surey write on what those figures have to say during and/or after his time at Boys Nation.

Zach will be traveling to Beijing, China with Stanford University to take a course on International Relations, Economics, and Globalization. He looks forward to an experience with a new culture, and meeting many important Chinse figures, including the Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme Court.  While the internet may be tough to come by in China, Zach will be sure to keep NSP readers in the loop as to what he learns during his month in China.  

Eftychis will be in Washington, DC as well taking a course from Georgetown University for two weeks.  The program is an international relations crisis scenario that focuses on possible US foreign policy in July of 2008 following turbulent democratic elections in Pakistan. Eftychis looks forward to returning with new diplomatic skills and knowledge of the Middle East and hopes his experience will be able to add to the quality of his New School Politics posts as well.

The next few weeks may be inconsistant in terms of content frequency for New School Politics as our three co-founders will be traveling all over the country-and the world-in an attempt to gain greater political efficacy and knowledge.  We appreciate our readers and hope you’ll stick with us.  Thanks, and we hope you’re having a great summer.

-NSP

Last 5 posts by Zach

• Vote! - November 4th, 2008
• At Least She's Not a Quitter - June 5th, 2008
• Fidel Castro Steps Down - February 19th, 2008
• The New School Goes Road Trippin' - February 13th, 2008
• Obama Outlines Economic Plan in New Speech - February 13th, 2008

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