{"id":144,"date":"2008-02-04T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southerner.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:33:03","slug":"adp-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southerner.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/adp-s\/","title":{"rendered":"American Democracy Project Encourages Civic Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Western Carolina University students attend the American Democracy Project – South conference at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. (photo by Dustin Wheeler)<\/p><\/div>\n

   As Super Tuesday looms, commentators question whether younger participants might make a difference in the next general election. Many contend younger participants must get involved in the process for democracy to truly work, but younger voters historically refuse to vote in large numbers.<\/font><\/p>\n

   Yet over two days in the fall semester, more than 50 college and university students started their involvement by participating in the third annual conference of the American Democracy Project\u2019s Southern Consortium at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. Conference coordinator Michael Ross, KSU\u2019s associate professor of middle grades education, confirmed that 81 people \u2013 51 students and 30 faculty or staff members \u2013 registered for the conference.<\/font><\/p>\n

   ADP seeks to produce graduates who understand and are committed to their roles as citizens in a democratic republic. Currently, 228 institutions in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities participate in the project.<\/font><\/p>\n

   \u201cHow can we drive the commitment to civic engagement to the core of the academy?\u201d KSU\u2019s Provost Lendley Black asked a room full of college and university students, professors and administrators prior to Associate Dean Michael Heard introducing the Alabama circuit judge who ruled against the Ten Commandments\u2019 Judge in the late 1990s. \u201cToo many students see citizenship as an on-again, off-again activity.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Adjudicating Democracy<\/span><\/p>\n

   Alabama Circuit Court Judge Charles Price provided insights into continuous citizenship during a plenary address to the ADP-South conference. Price\u2019s ruling that the courtroom display of the Ten Commandments was unconstitutional brought death threats but earned him both the Wiley Benton award, honoring the lawyer of the Little Rock Nine, and the John F. Kennedy Profile of Courage, which chose Price as Alabama\u2019s first black recipient.<\/font><\/p>\n

   \u201cI respect people of faith for I am one of them,\u201d Price said. \u201cAs a judge however, I will do what is legal and what is right.\u201d
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