Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Service, for Obama votes

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, October 20, 2008

“I don’t drop a lot of Yalies off here,” the taxi driver said as he pulled up to the intersection of Winchester Avenue and Starr Street. “Be careful.”

A number of Yale students teamed up Saturday afternoon with members of the community in the Newhallville neighborhood for a community sweep sponsored by the non-profit Obama Works. Founded in February by David Manners-Weber ’10 and Justin Kosslyn ’09, the organization aims to harness the momentum associated with the Obama campaign and direct it into a new method of campaigning: community service in Obama’s name.

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#1 By DMW 5:13a.m. on October 20, 2008

Check out wwww.obamaworks.org to learn more - and come join us next weekend!

#2 By Peter '01 YP 5:36p.m. on October 20, 2008

Ai'nt she sweet, ooo i mean ,is'nt that nice. That is just such a lovely thing.to do, gee i only want to jump on top of the chance.
Let's make sure that it's an ALL INCLUSIVE gang clean up.

#3 By John '05 4:41p.m. on October 22, 2008

Cleaning up is great, but it is sad to see that some Yalies have been won over by a lot of eloquent speech -- the facade for bad policy that is backed by no record.

I clean up my community, too, but it has nothing to do with Obama!

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