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Originally Published PR Week

It has been more than 40 years since a group of Columbia University students staged a sit-in at the office of the president, Grayson Kirk, to protest (among other things) the school’s affiliation with a consortium that did military research for the government. The incident led some to conclude that a generational revolution had begun with radical college students leading the way.

While the recent presidential campaign saw a return to the headlines of one of that era’s revolutionaries – William Ayers – many observed that today’s college students seemed pretty docile compared to their parents’ generation. Where were the anti-war protesters? Where were the anti-globalists? Why weren’t more students displaying anger with the corporate greed that had sown the seeds for financial cataclysm? (more…)