Student Activists Are Making Noise, but Is Anybody Listening?

As a new movement takes shape, protesters struggle with ideology, apathy

By ANDREW BROWNSTEIN

Ann Arbor, Mich.

A baptismal rain falls upon the stained-glass windows of the University of Michigan Law School, as students inside bow their heads and join hands in prayer.

They come from Harvard and Brown, Penn State and Wayne State, fresh from a season of...