Occupy Movement Sparks A New Type Of Campus Activism

Occupy protests rapidly sprouted at other campuses: hundreds nationwide currently have or had some sort of Occupy-related activity going on. Mirroring the broader movement, students have taken aim at widening income disparities and the cozy symbiosis between Washington and Wall Street. But the college occupiers have also embraced a panoply of causes, localizing and personalizing their protests in a way that has lent an immediacy and urgency to their outcries. All of which sets Occupy-related student protests apart from much of the campus activism that has come before. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/the-new-student-activism.html