The Right's Kind of Campus

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http://www.alternet.org/election04/19588/

This ia what Howard Dean sees as the frontline of our fight against RW. .....The RW have been 'training' 'brainwashing' at all levels of society. This is a much bigger problem than just the presidency. We have a crisis, folks, and it is like an iceberg, we are only seeing the tip.

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The campus Left, which is still organized for the most part by students and community activists, increasingly finds itself facing off against seasoned conservative strategists. And while progressive student groups are mostly self-funded, by the mid-1990s roughly $20 million dollars were being pumped into the campus Right annually, according to People for the American Way.

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Morton Blackwell, the treasurer of Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation, understands the value of those efforts. The long-time GOP activist and one-time Reagan advisor has been fighting the campus wars for four decades. Currently, he's president of the Leadership Institute, which trains, supports and does public relations for 213 conservative student groups nationwide. If you want to fight the Left on your campus, the Leadership Institute is one-stop shopping – they'll provide you with conservative guest speakers, help starting a conservative newspaper, and training in how to win campus elections.

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One of the bulwarks of that movement has been the creation of a right-wing college media. The effort has been led by YAF's National Journalism Center, which "trains scores of students every year in the skills of press work, and assigns them internships cooperating media locations" like the Washington Times.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) – founded by William F. Buckley and run by another former Reagan advisor, T. Kenneth Crib, Jr. – is one of the country's leading recipients of conservative funding, according to the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. In addition to its generous scholarships and research grants for conservatives, ISI funnels cash to over eighty right-wing student publications through its Collegiate Network (CN). A report by People for the American Way quotes the editor-in-chief of the conservative Stanford Review as saying CN staffers "help us form our opinions."

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