February 17, 2006

Paging the Activists

By ERIC HOOVER

A new book chronicles the rise of the student movement after World War II

Two decades before flower power bloomed at American colleges, student leaders seeded higher education with big ideas. One of them was that students should have a louder voice in campus, national, and global affairs.

So, in 1947, a group of young activists founded the National Student Association, which would quickly help transform campus culture, from Cambridge, Mass., to Berkeley, Calif. Their story

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