Campus Activism.

Extracts from "Deliberate Differences: Progressive and Conservative Campus Activism in the United States" by Pam Chamberlain can be found in The Public Eye" a Publication of Political Research Associates (Spring 2005). The findings are summarized into eight parts. 1. Energetic college students are engaged in campus-based activism, but their numbers are small. 2. Conservative and progressive students approach activism differently. 3. Political mentors are absent from campus. 4. Students are responding to issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation. 5. Debate is unpopular on campus. 6. National political organizations successfully influence campus groups with resources, mentors, and incentives. 7. A "leadership pipeline" exists for both progressives and conservatives but their approaches differ. 8. Centrist students are not actively recruited by either conservative or progressive campus activists. Of these eight major findings, a "leadership pipeline" is reprinted in full. For more information, go to www.publiceye.org.

For a history of the recent living wage campaign victory at Georgetown University, where students and workers united to make the university commit to a Living Wage Policy on March 24, 2005, see Left Turn Magazine, August/ September 2005, www.leftturn.org.

For a description of student activism across the country, see "Students do the right thing," AFT On Campus, September 2005, www.aft.org.