Conservative network celebrates 25 years

Washington Times ^ | Sunday, November 28, 2004 | By Jennifer Harper

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Conservative network celebrates 25 years

By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 28, 2004

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Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D'Souza, Rich Lowry -- the alumni list of the Collegiate Network reads like a who's who of spirited conservative thought.
    Established 25 years ago, the Delaware-based CN was founded to counter the politicization of American campuses and to support conservative student journalists intent on making their voices heard.
    The organization has fostered 85 independent publications at such liberal strongholds as Harvard, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley -- furnishing operational grants, journalistic training, editorial resources, internships and mentoring.
    "The rise of a conservative media counterestablishment and today's dominance of conservatism in the broader American society is no accident," said CN spokeswoman Sarah Longwell. "It came about because of the vision and dedication of those who labored over the past quarter century to win the hearts and minds of an entire generation."
    Indeed, talk-radio host Miss Ingraham and book author Mr. D'Souza were both former editors of the Dartmouth Review, founded in 1980 by disaffected staffers from the university's liberal student publication.
    National Review editor Mr. Lowry, meanwhile, was the former editor of the Virginia Advocate, a monthly journal that promotes conservative values at the University of Virginia. Author and commentator Miss Coulter once edited the Cornell Review, another conservative student paper.
    Now, the next generation has arrived.
    Student-run or not, CN publications routinely play hardball these days, sounding the alarm about liberal bias in the media, excruciating political correctness and questionable academic offerings.
    The current issue of the Cornell Review, for example, takes on New York Times writer Maureen Dowd, categorizing her work as ...

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Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D'Souza, Rich Lowry — the alumni list of the Collegiate Network reads like a who's who of spirited conservative thought.

What is the liberal equivalent? Paul Begala, Tom Olliphant, Ellen Goodman, and Mo Dowd?

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The current issue of the Cornell Review, for example, takes on New York Times writer Maureen Dowd


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