[summer]

Why are there quotation marks in the article's following sentence?

These groups spend money in various ways to push a right-wing agenda on campuses: some make direct cash ''grants'' to student groups to start and run conservative campus newspapers; others provide free training in ''conservative leadership,'' often providing heavily subsidized travel to their ''publishing programs''; others provide help with the hefty speaking fees for celebrity right-wing speakers.

It seems like the writer is trying to tell us: SOMETHING MORE DEVIOUS THAN YOU KNOW IS ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE -- when, in fact, it sounds to me like: grants, conseravative leadership and publishing programs. And, no quotation marks are necessary.

[PianoMan]

As Instapundit noted, it's not like the student activists in the 60s were not inundated with plenty of financing either.

[section9]

Why are there quotation marks in the article's following sentence?

Because the devious, left-wing little barebacker is trying to raise suspicion against legal and moral activity that supports the campus conservative movement nationwide.

Another cheap Rat-bastard from the New York Times. Notice the first guy he went to for color analysis was David Brock. Enough said.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Catalonia]

It seems like the writer is trying to tell us: SOMETHING MORE DEVIOUS THAN YOU KNOW IS ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE -- when, in fact, it sounds to me like: grants, conseravative leadership and publishing programs. And, no quotation marks are necessary.

Yes. The writer is trying to tell us that conservative campus groups can ONLY survive with outside funding, that conservatism (i.e., anti-liberalism) is therefore not legitimate. Of course, the writer fails to mention the MASSIVE funding that liberal groups have from outside the campus, as well.

[Terry Mross]

Hey, summer, did you also notice there was vigil (no quotation marks) against the war while the conservatives held "pro America" and "pro troops" rallies?