Essays on Student Activism

My Essays and Papers

Creating a Culture of Intolerance (Barriers to Student Activism at Notre Dame)
A Gendered Organizational Analysis of the SEAC
Hunger Strike at Notre Dame (my Z Magazine article)
The New Left and Radical Economics (on SDS)
SEAC's Crisis (on SEAC's 1996 crisis)
Student Movements and Tactic Innovation: Decentralized Protesting and the April 16 model
A Theory of Student Power
Towards a Theory of Student Liberation
A History of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)

Other's Essays, Documents, etc.

Anon. Against Student Activism
Abrams, Stephanie. A History of Feminist Activism at Miami University
Burns, Andy. Redefining Campus Power (from the DTI 2000 packet )
Berry, Rasool. "The Black Student Experience at Penn."
Gorman, Justin. "Room 101." (powerful story about high school activism)
Hoffman, Abbie. Reflections on Student Activism (Speech at 1986 Rutgers student activist conference)
Hoffman, Abbie. Steal this Book (online book)
Keefer, Tom. "The Theory and Practice of Highschool Activism."
(a webpage from a free school)
MECHA. MECHA documents
Muchhala, Bhumika. Student Voices One Year After Seattle (lengthy report based on many interviews)
Odell, Eric. Essay on building a new national progressive student organization
Ollman, Bertell. "How to Take an Exam...and Win the World." (article on student liberation)
Students for a Democratic Society. Port Huron Statement (38 years later, better than any other student activist statements written since then... still very valid)
Watts, Tom. The Student Left and Youth Liberation in the U.S.A.
Williams, Kristian. Reflections on the Georgetown Sit-In (Z Mag, May 1999)

A Student Movements Course Syllabus (written for an undergraduate sociology class, feel free to use)

Student Activism Frequently Asked Questions

Disorientation Guides
Since the Sixties, student activists have been producing our own orientation/disorientation guides for incoming and returning students as alternatives to our Administrations' propaganda. I think UC Berkeley produced the first one.

Stanford -- AWESOME!!! they've got several years of guides just put online!!!

Indiana University Disorientation 2001

U Texas Disorientation Guide (they're working on it)

Arizona State Disorientation Guide (also under construction)

UW Madison -- has produced copies for several years, it's not online so ask someone at UW Alliance for Democracy
Notre Dame 1999 (20 pages in Acrobat PDF -- if you want it in another format ask)
2000 ND Disorientation Guide (latest)

Northwestern's Disorientation Guide

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