[FlipWilson]

Activism, to me, implies an inclination to gravitate away from what is seen as the status quo. On college campuses across the country the status quo is leftist faculty forcing, yes forcing, their views on students. Thus, perhaps today's student activism is a gravitation away from what was seen as the "movement" in the 60's.

[reformedliberal]

The Movement was very small, back in the 60s and 70s.

Try this, today: ask aging boomers if they were political, meaning activist, or "just hippies". The ones I put this question to almost all grin in a goofy manner and say:"Hippie".

We had the activist instructors back then, too. They were also young and looking to make a rep for themselves. They did, at least at the schools I attended: a rep for getting the pretty girls in bed and being easy graders while their classes were egoistic performances, not education.

I agree that the activism today is against the leftist indoctrination. The students I know mostly keep their head down, lie thru their teeth on the disposition exams and in their papers, are getting their degrees and voting GOP. "Hippie" is not a term of endearment among these young people.