During the sixties protests there was a joke where I went to school.
At Columbia, the students took over the ROTC building.
At Berkeley, the students occupied the Dean’s office.
At Newark College of Engineering, the students were too busy studying.
Exactly and it is still true today.
Unless a person was brilliant and can party into the wee hours and skip classes and exams to attend a protest marches, your typical engineering student is too busy.