Civic Participation

  The American Civil Liberties Union has recently sent out letters to 32 state registrars urging them to allow students to register to vote where they attend school. The ACLU also sent emails to college newspapers asking them to alert students to the problems they may encounter when registering and to let students know that they may contact the ACLU for assistance. In 2000, the ACLU criticized the registrar

  Last week, while the Illinois-Israel Public Affairs Committee held a celebration in honor of the state of Israel's 59th birthday, other students protested the affair, calling to attention the rights of Palestinians. 4/27/07  Read More form the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Wayne State University met to discuss a new campaign for their school to divest from defense corporations. Wayne State’s SDS is coordinating their divestment efforts with students at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University who are pushing for the same at their schools. In a largely symbolic move, the Student Government of American University has voted against the University policy of allowing military recruiters on campus saying that it runs counter to the school’s nondiscrimination policy. The move is in criticism of the mi

  Three students at the University of New Hampshire were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct in protest of a Genocide Awareness Project display. The GAP is a group that "exhibits large photo murals comparing aborted babies with Jewish Holocaust victims, African Americans killed in racist lynching, Native Americans exterminated by the U.S. army, etc., to illuminate the conceptual similarities which exist between abortion and more widely recognized forms of genocide." The women were members of Operation: Respect, a nonpartisan group formed in response to the controversial GAP. 4

Are young people today apathetic?  Do they engage in politics in a different way than their parents?  A new research paper by CIRCLE and a book by a student at Stanford explore the politics of the ‘Millennials.’

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  20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee, has been served an FBI search warrant for allegedly hacking into vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s private email accounts. The breach of Governor Palin’s email account is significant because she used her private account to conduct state business. More from Fox News More from MTV News

  The Young Conservatives of Texas hosted a speech by Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group involved in helping in the discovery of illegal border activity. About 30 protesters, including students and community members, gathered to protest the group, which they believe is racist. 4/11/07  Read More from the University of Texas

  Our last issue highlighted the first article in a three-part series on campus activism at Notre Dame University—now parts two and three. The second article in the series examines experiential differences between the protests of the 1970s and those of today. The third article takes a look at the methods of protest Notre Dame students are using as well as the issues they are tackling. 3/29/07  Read Pa