Show Students eager eager fG inauguration for Theresa Vargas The Washington PostAs PostAs Post PostAs As he researched charter bus tickets one day in late December Ethan Plato said nothing could stop him from attending the inauguration Not the classes he would miss Not the hit his college budget would take Not even the miles between Washington and his school in Canada Theres no hesitation there at all said the 18 year-old year University of Ottawa freshman The way I Isee see it is I may miss three or four classes once in my first year but this will be something I will remember forever Across the nation and beyond students are going to great lengths to witness of Barack showing that the energy arid and activism his campaign ignited even among tl those ose too young to vote has continued after the November election On numerous groups have been formed by students planning road trips one from Jamaica and by those angry with class schedules that conflict with the Jan 20 ceremony At Harvard University hundreds of undergraduates have signed an online petition asking administrators to allow students to make up ex exams exams exams' s J I scheduled that day I In Montgomery County Md officials initially sought to togo togo togo go against a regional trend and keep schools open for forr the inauguration but a a student petition seeking to to close scho schools ls drew more than signatures The thing that I thought was surprising was how many students were willi willing g to do something else besides just talk about it said Elizabeth Kelley a teacher They weren't just interested in getting a aday aday aday day off but they were truly interested in getting a day off to participate i in one way or another The Student and Youth Travel As Association based in Michigan which includes travel agents tour operators and bus companies estimates companies estimates that as many as 5 students students' plan to attend the the inauguration That's five times the number who attended President Bushs Bush's second inauguration Plato said he and 49 other students plan to do a alot alot alot lot of pf sleeping ping on the bus They will leave the night before the inauguration tion arrive in yashin Washington the next morning a anc d W ead back to Canada Still it'll be worth if said the teenager who df dragged a size life-size cutout of with him to to the pub pub for f r the e 1 really lly s e tl is isi i |