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Program reviewing and honoring the past 25 years of the Collegiate Network, the group of college conservative writers who began challenging the liberal orthodoxy on campuses all over the country back in the seventies - John Podhoretz and Todd Lindberg from the University of Chicago on now - interesting history, running for about another hour on C-Span......

The phrase “student activists” usually conjures up images of sign-waving protestors railing against various evils of the establishment. Indeed, for decades after the modern student movement began at the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s, such protestors were traditionally liberal —and reflexively so, given that administrations were comparatively conservative. But now that today’s educational establishment is populated with yesterday’s student radicals, conservatives find themselves in the odd position of being the protestors. But rather than rely on disruptive tactics, modern conservatives are improving on plays from the liberal handbook: They’re making their points with wit and humor, not catcalling and...

What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968? Max Elbaum Seattle used to be just a city. Since December 1999, it has become shorthand for grassroots protest against the injustices of global capitalism. This is hardly the first time a place-name has come to symbolize a watershed in opposition movements. There were a host of such markers in the huge wave of U.S. protests against racism and the Vietnam War during and after 1968: "Chicago" (referring to the 1968 Democratic Convention where police beat demonstrators as they chanted "the whole world is watching"); "San Francisco State" (where a 1968-69 strike...

Dear Conservative Activist/Leader, As you know, the Left has the major advantages of being entrenched on college campuses as well as having established networks of money and activists to fund their causes. Leftists in New York have a large collection of activist groups and political organizations to work with ranging from CAIR, to ACORN, to the Working Family Party and the various communist parties still run out of New York. These groups share resources and members. They march under the same banners, maximizing their political gains. Heretofore, we have been at a severe disadvantage. Hopefully the meeting on June 26th...

Specter of war treads lightly on campuses Student bodies haven't been fully engaged by direct appeals to oppose Iraq attack Sunday, November 24, 2002By Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Student activists who say their government is about to make an epic mistake gather every Friday around a table on the University of Pittsburgh campus and unfurl a sign with a simple message. "Disagree with a war in Iraq?" asks the poster in the William Pitt Union. "Do something." Pitt senior Lindsay Liprando signs a letter to Presidnet Bush, urging him to reconsider war with Iraq. Andrew Schrock and Caset Currin...