Sunday, April 16, 2006

Activists in Our Midst

2/26/04

Emerson College is a typical Boston liberal-arts school: students afire with knowledge and half-digested ideas, an environment steeped in progressive social movements, and quietly panicked by the looming threat of the apathy of both the powerful and their peers. This article began as a class assignment, a study in the speech patterns of three different students who "had causes" and "did" activism in one way or another. It became a sampling of the ways the students at our school (I hesistate to use the expression "our generation") react to issues in a cynical post-60s world where often actions do not matter as much as we'd like, and to what extent this affects whether or not we act.

Lead paragraph:

Everyone has issues. It seems that at Emerson, we have our own unique take on the issues, and aren't shy about making opinions heard. The Beacon spoke with a few students who are making things happen, on campus and off. These students are not the presidents of organizations and they are certainly not getting paid...

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