if there is a rise in conservatism among the college students (and I
don't know if there is or not), it would partially be because of the
normal teenage reaction to such poorly-thought-out bureaucratic
policies such as "speech codes."

On 4/6/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/6/07, ken hanly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what is the explanation for the rise of right wing
> thought on campuses.

If College Republicans are scoring more recruits even now, that's
probably not because young people have gotten more Republican but
because they have funders that help them recruit more even out of a
shrinking pool of the hard Right among the young, it seems to me.
Both the organized Right and the organized Left are minuscule on US
college campuses today, and the dominant campus mood, especially at
places like the Ohio State University, is apolitical, focused on
balancing academic work and wage labor (of which students need to do
more, in order to pay for tuition and other fees that have been rising
much faster than general inflation), to the exclusion of politics.
--
Yoshie



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