"Many wondered why should they participate, why should they care, by voting or running for office?
If the East Coast wants to participate, why not have viewing parties at Madison Square Garden or Radio City Music Hall for East Coast academy members and nominees who can't come to California, with live remotes of the presentation of a few Oscars?
"And if the Chargers aren't participating, why are some politicians proposing to waste the taxpayers' money?" To the dismay of Faulconer and others, the Chargers and the Oakland Raiders are planning a joint-use stadium in Carson.
After the fall semester we asked students for feedback on the preceptor-led study groups regarding what was helpful, what could be improved, and, if not participating, why they did not attend.
The questionnaires will provide detailed insight into 'who participated when and why' (and who did not), as well as information about behavioural characteristics such as sexual behaviour, number of sexual partners, and condom use.
However, a broad norm that people are supposed to vote cannot explain why some people fail to participate or why rates of participation vary sharply across elections.
Later, when I asked him why he had agreed to participate - why he had trusted me to tell his story - he said: "Well, it really wasn't a question of trusting you at that point... it was just that things couldn't get any worse for me".
While these theories may describe the motivations for non-participation of some of the highly educated individuals who refused in our study, they do not explain readily why this subgroup of nonparticipants chose refusal instead of non-response to express their desire not to participate or why those of White race/ethnicity were more likely to refuse.
They'd forgotten, it seemed, why their formation had needed to be so perfect, the letter's edges so precise, with all of them wearing the same color, with the right number of them participating, and why they'd been required to hold perfectly still for five minutes at the event's end.
