Posted on 12/27/2005 2:00:25 AM PST by RWR8189
Protests on college campuses are becoming more sophisticated and more often staged by conservative students.
Some conservatives say activism is growing because of a national network reaching out to students who've felt too threatened in the past to speak up on liberal campuses.
"The tides are turning on college campuses," said Jason Mattera, spokesman for the conservative Young America's Foundation in Herndon, Va. "Conservative students will not take liberal garbage anymore."
At the University of Colorado at Boulder, student Republicans made national news by holding an anti-affirmative-action bake sale where the "suggested donation" for a cookie depended on the race and ethnicity of the buyer. More recently, they staked out professor Ward Churchill's office and demanded that he identify who he believed was a deserving victim in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
And when President Bush came to Denver last month, student Republicans messed with liberal protesters by showing up with over-the-top signs saying things like "Free Sad dam" and "No Food for Oil." They tried to blend in, hoping to make the Democrats look like radicals.
A member of CU's College Democrats spotted a Republican protester and outed her.
"I told everybody around us we had a Republican amongst us," said Andrew Harrison, a senior political-science major who says conservatives on the Boulder campus are as active as liberals.
The College Democrats have about 1,000 members on their e-mail list, compared with about 1,400 for the College Republicans. But unlike the Republicans, Harrison said, Democrats collaborate with other campus groups.
"The College Republicans are kind of the lone conservative wolf - they have to make a name for themselves," Harrison said.
The CU-Boulder College Republicans have more members than any other student group, chairman Ian VanBuskirk said. They're drawn to each other for support on a left-leaning campus, he said.
"They get pushed to the right because they are so offended by what their professors, especially in the ethnic-studies and the women's-studies departments, are saying," he said.
Student Republicans protested against Churchill last year, demanding that CU fire him for his essay comparing some 9/11 victims to a Nazi bureaucrat.
It's not just that the number of conservative students is growing; it's that they have more venues for activism - talk radio, online journals and blogs, and conservative campus newspapers, Mattera said.
"They have the opportunity to fight back more than ever today," he said. "It's now the cool thing, the 'in' thing, to be a conservative."
Charlie Smith, a University of Denver junior and leader of the 3,000-member Colorado Federation of College Republicans, said conservative students are gaining courage to speak out as they hear of other right-leaning activism across the country.
College Democrats criticize their conservative counterparts' attention-grabbing antics.
"It's a lot easier for the conservatives to be more provocative because they're in the minority," said Matt Ginsberg, president of CU's College Democrats.
Ginsberg called the protests against affirmative action and Churchill "ridiculous."
The Democrats, meanwhile, are demanding reform after a string of racist incidents.
The Democrats and Republicans agree it's healthy for any college campus to have protests on both sides of the issues.
Sure they do. There's nothing so weird that it wouldn't fit right in with the Democrats at any gathering. And the Demoncraps don't see any problem there.
Which would no doubt decrease dramatically if the Democrats would stop committing them.
That problem is easy to solve: let them become the majority!
Sure, like the memorable vegan sign at the Tookey execution vigil. That made a lot of sense.
"A member of CU's College Democrats spotted a Republican protester and outed her.
"I told everybody around us we had a Republican amongst us," said Andrew Harrison, a senior political-science major"
What a proud little brownshirt. He'd be marching her to the gas chamber if Noam said the campus had to be purified.
Ginsberg unwittingly takes the bait...make them defend vermin like Churchill!
LOL! Way to go, Protest Warriors!
Good news. Thanks for posting.
Conservative students go to college to prepare for having to employ the other students...
Quinn, though crude at times ;-), has an ability to explain a lot of the issues with amazing clarity. I've learned a great deal by listening to his common-sense way of explaining the issues. He and Rose need to be on more radio stations.
Conservative kids on college campuses ping.
It's good practice for them... when they enter the "real world", Democrats will collaborate with anything that advances their power... enviornmental wackos... baby-killers... homosexual advocates... Islamic terrorists...
The College Democrats have about 1,000 members on their e-mail list, compared with about 1,400 for the College Republicans.
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A very promising number, I wonder if the admin and faculty who suport Churchill can see that they are helping to make this large number of identified Republicans grow.
Jennifer Brown, they don't need any help being " over the top". Do a little research before writing.
In other words, Democrats will bed down with anything that moves.
It doesn't even have to move if it will help them gain or retain power.
Well let me tell youuuuuu, LOL. My daughter has just finished her first semester at Cornell and, to my surprise, she doesn't seem to require deprogramming yet. LOL
Seriously though, I warned her that she would be solicited there by every special interest group alive and I explained to her why they specifically target her demographic, ie. young, impressionable, first time away from home, and etc). I didn't want her to get sidetracked from her mission there of getting a great education and valuable degree. To my surprise, she has come home very focused on her studies and pretty much politically neutral, where as she went in somewhat leaning left. She tells me that she sees a pretty even divide between left and right in the students on campus while the professors are mostly left. I'm hoping the trend continues in her case. If not, does anyone know of any support groups for parents of kids in liberal brainwashing stations disguised as Universities? LOL
My youngest son graduated (with honors in Finance) from CU Boulder, he won't give a dime to the University, won't even put his personal information on their graduate booklists or websites. He was a definite minority when he was there and said at one class in a lecture hall a professer was talking about abortion and he stood up and said "abortion is murder of the innocent". Anyway he said the professer sort of backed off and said something about all opinions are valid while some of the kids turned around and stared - he said a few gave him a thumbs up. He got a "B" in the course. This was just a few years ago but he never liked it there and has no loyalty to the school, he is not alone.
Young pupils protecting our culture and our identities. Isn't that neat?
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