Mother Jones magazine is looking for information on campus activism in the 2007-08 academic year for a roundup to be published in the fall. It’s not clear why they titled their blogpost Are Today’s Student Activists Lazy?, though.
(Here’s a link to last year’s report.)
The editor in chief of the Quinnipiac University Chronicle and all of the paper’s other returning editors have submitted their resignations, and all of the candidates for editorships for next year have withdrawn their applications. The paper’s staff intends to launch a new, web-only independent campus paper.
The mass defection followed a university decision to place the selection of next year’s Chronicle editors in the hands of the university’s dean of students.
The Chronicle and the Quinnipiac adminstration have clashed repeatedly in the last year, and the new selection process was designed as a “trial structure” while the possibility of making the Chronicle independent of the university was explored. When the process was announced, editor Jason Braff, who had intended to stay on next year, withdrew his name from consideration, and all other editors and applicants followed suit.
The Chronicle has published its final issue for the spring semester. The university hopes to have a full slate of editors in place for the start of classes in the fall, but Braff and outgoing campus news editor Jaclyn Hirsch say they believe no applications have yet been submitted for any of the editorial positions.
On Tuesday of this week, in a 17-0 vote, the Quinnipiac faculty senate urged the administration to place the restructuring proposal on hold for one year. On Wednesday the Chronicle staff met to begin planning for the new web-based paper.
A new Harvard University study finds a major uptick in youth political engagement. The study’s authors expect to find “significant, if not, record” increases in youth voter turnout this fall, and show Obama with commanding leads against both Clinton and McCain.
Much more at the above link.
We have received word from a commenter that there have been arrests in the UNC anti-sweatshop sit-ins. The UPI reports that five students were arrested today after they moved their protest from the building’s rotunda to the chancellor’s office.
Neither source provides details on the charges filed. As of 5:30 pm Eastern time the UNC sit-in blog had not been updated with news of the arrests.
Update: Minutes after the above was posted, the sit-in blog was updated with a detailed report on this morning’s events.
May 5 Update: The link I provided earlier has been taken down, but a fuller report and other materials have been posted. Check the sit-in blog’s main page for updates.
The anti-sweatshop sit-in at the University of North Carolina is now in day 16. Here’s what’s happened since our last update:
• UNC chancellor James Moeser traveled to Washington DC for a State Department conference on education and global development, and United Students Against Sweatshops made sure the jaunt was no vacation. A group of DC-area activists held a demonstration as delegates arrived at the conference, chanting and leafleting as Moeser walked in.
• Wireless internet access to the building the demonstrators are occupying mysteriously went down about a week ago. A unversity IT person checked on the network a few days ago, and claimed he could find nothing wrong. For now, the folks sitting in are sharing a single ethernet connection.
• In the early days of the sit-in, UNC administration took a relaxed attitude toward the demonstrators hanging signs inside and outside the building. In the wake of an Obama rally on campus, and with commencement fast approaching, that lenience may be ending.
• The sit-in has spread to Second Life.
studentactivism.net 
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