Campus Progress in the News

“ Leading Clean Energy Movement Leaders Speak at Democratic National Convention,” PowerVote.org, August 25, 2008

“Democrats pursue young voters in effort to reverse tradition of poor turnout,” The Press-Enterprise, August 25, 2008

“Youth vote so far: McCain’s tone deaf but trying hard,” Washington Post/CBSNews.com Youth Vote Blog, August 21, 2008

“Supporting Roles: Ryan Gosling as Darfur Activist and Humble Star,” Washington Post, July 9, 2008

“Broader Youth Involvement Urged,” Washington Post, July 9, 2008

“Edwards Channels Obama,” Politico, July 9, 2008

“Analyzing the Youth Vote,” Inside Higher Ed, July 9, 2008

“Students Protest Iraq ‘Mission Accomplished’ Day,” Badger Herald, May 5, 2008

“Students Make a ‘Shock and Awe’ Statement,” Daily Titan, April 22, 2008

“Five years at war: Iraq exit strategies,” The Muhlenberg Weekly, April 10, 2008

“Capitalist Society Says ‘Hasta La Vista’ to Affordable Education,” New University, April 9, 2008

“Print Activism: Alive and Well,” The Columbia Spectator, April 7, 2008

“WU students vote Obama, McCain,” Student Life, April 5, 2008

“Antiwar journalist tells of experiences in Iraq,” The Daily Texan, April 4, 2008

Fox News feature on “I’m Voting For”, April 3, 2008

“ASUM pushes for voter registration,” Montana Kaimin, April 4, 2008

“Campus Progress sponsors progressive AU magazine,” The American University Eagle, March 27, 2008

“Groups combat rising student loan debt,” The Oklahoma University Daily, March 25, 2008

“UCSB Students Host National Conference on Global Warming,” The Santa Barbara Independent, March 23, 2008

“David Halperin speaks at Iraq event at Muhlenberg College,” WFMZ, March 19, 2008

“Alternative Spring Break: Party Later, Save the World Now!,” The Nicholls Wort, March 13, 2008

“Party later; change the world now,” The Daily Texan, March 6, 2008

“The [dot] Org Boom (Beyond Obama),” Talking Points Memo, March 5, 2008

“Web Site Would Track Tuition Hikes,” The Standard, February 19, 2008

“50 Politicos to Watch,” Politico, February 13, 2008 — CP’s Erica Williams named one of them

“Youth Activists Defend Generation,” NewYorkTimes.com, January 29, 2008

“University Group Continues New Orleans Rebuilding,” DailyPress.com, January 27, 2008

“Don’t Call Me Criminal,” Silicon Valley’s Metro, December 12, 2007

“Docs as journalists,” Chicago Tribune, November 30, 2007

“Naomi Wolf Doesn’t Get America’s Youth,” The Washington Post, November 27, 2007

“Scholars discuss academic freedom,” Chicago Maroon, November 20, 2007

“Six Desi Americans Among 32 Rhodes Scholars,” INDOlink, November 19, 2007

“Group Protests Outside Campus, I.V. ATM Sites,” Daily Nexus, November 19, 2007

“Are young people becoming more conservative?,” Southern Maryland Online, November 14, 2007

“Iraq veteran calls on citizens to end war,” Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, November 14, 2007

“Campus Pals Shed Light on HIV/AIDS,” The Hilltop, November 8, 2007

“Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby,” The Santa Barbara Independent, November 6, 2007

“Claiming a Public Space — Undocumented Youth Come Out of the Closet,” New America Media, October 31, 2007

“Linking Terror on the Trail,” The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2007

“Changing Government not Impossible for Students,” BYU NewsNet, October 15, 2007

“Students Take Sustainability in Michigan into their Own Hands,” It’s Getting Hot In Here, October 03, 2007

“Julianne Jaquith ’08 Examined Public Defender System in Hudson Valley,” Hamilton College News, September 13, 2007

“Inside the Beltway,” The Washington Times, August 21, 2007

“Voter Ed — Of, For and By Students,” Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2007

“Essay contest offers scholarship,” The Vista, July 26, 2007

“how can you not love washington, d.c.?!,” CosmoGIRL!, July 3, 2007

“Pelosi Draws Cheers at Conference of Liberal College Students,” Kansas City infoZine, June 29, 2007

“Famed investigative reporter says he’s not that ‘‘ferocious’‘,” Medill Reports, June 26, 2007

“Feingold discusses Iraq,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 26, 2007

“University student wins prize for activism,” The Daily Texan, June 21, 2007

“Films ease difficulty of telling tales of sorrow,” Corvallis Gazette-Times, June 12, 2007

“Federal aid fails needy students,” Baltimore Sun, May 16, 2007 (subscription required)

“Filmmakers to discuss works at RR Square,” Morning Sentinel, April 12, 2007

“Resolution affronts academic freedom,” The Daily Texan, March 26, 2007

“Antiwar Students Rising,” The Nation, March 15, 2007 (subscription required)

“Student protesters take marches to the Web,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 9, 2007

“New e-zine spurs social, political debate,” Middletown Press, March 6, 2007

“Students urge SCSU to cut greenhouse gases,” New Haven Register, March 2, 2007 (Environmental Futurists are a Campus Progress action grant recipient)

“Vets give college students eyewitness view of Iraq war,” Tennessean.com, February, 20, 2007

“Lecture Focuses on Young Votes, Informed Debate,” Daily Nexus, February 9, 2007

“Summer Internships: Liberals and Leftists Strike Out,” Dissent Magazine, February, 6, 2007

“The Campus Pulse: Green Week,” The Daily Colonial, February, 1, 2007

“Students protest troop increase at D.C. rally,” The Ithacan Online, February, 1, 2007

“Students visit U.S. capital for anti-war rally,” Truman State University Index, February, 1, 2007

“Students Join the Washington Anti-war Rally,” College of New Jersey Signal, January 31, 2007

“A Jumbo Effort,” The Tufts Daily, January 30, 2007

“‘An Inconvenient Truth’ kicks-off Green Week,” The Daily Colonial, January 30, 2007

“‘They Jump to Those Claims’,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 26, 2007

“Recruiting for the Right,” by Kelly Field, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 2007

“Student Lobbyists Strive for College Affordability,” by Jason Plautz, North by Northwestern (Northwestern University), January 10, 2007

“Power of the Press,” by Walter O’Brien, Courier News, December 28, 2006

“Student-Created Online Magazine Pushes Readers to Take Actions,” by Olivia Bartlett, The Wesleyan Connection (Wesleyan University), December 20, 2006

“Documentary Explores Experiences of Soldiers in Iraq,” by Chau Nguyen, Miami Student (Miami University – Oxford, Ohio), December 8, 2006

“Barack Obama Inc.,” by Ken Silverstein, Harper’s, December 6, 2006

“Groups Press Vanderbilt to Raise Workers’ Wages ,” by Theo Emery, The New York Times, November 30, 2006 (about living wage campaign at Vanderbilt supported by a Campus Progress Action Grant)

“15 Brigades Would Gradually Stand Down Under Plan,” by David E. Sanger and David S. Cloud, The New York Times, November 30, 2006 (photo of Lee Hamilton / Tom Daschle Campus Progress event; CSPAN and CNN video of the event is here).

“Five Elis win Rhodes,” by Kanya Balakrishna, Yale Daily News (Yale University), November 20, 2006. Rhodes scholarship recipient Maya Shankar is a member of the Campus Progress Student Advisory Board and Whitney Haring-Smith is a Campus Progress student rep.

“Young People Struggle to Deal With Kiss of Debt,” by Mindy Fetterman and Barbara Hansen, USA Today, November 20, 2006

“Senior Brings Speakers to Duke, House,” by Cameron VanSant, The Chronicle (Duke University), November 16, 2006

“Student Voting Impacts Political Decision-Making,” by Leslie Small, Daily Collegian (Penn State University), November 15, 2006

“Suckers for a Uniform,” by Ben Adler, The American Prospect, November 3, 2006

“Progressive Group Deploys Web Video and Mobile Student Debt Effort,” by Kate Kaye, ClickZ News, October 31, 2006

“Spread the Word,” by Gary J. Andres, Washington Times, October 26, 2006

“New Magazine to Spark Activism,” by Spencer Sheridan, Weslyan Argus (Weslyan University), October 6, 2006

“MTV News For the Record,” MTVNews, October 4, 2006 (Princeton hip-hop event)

“Al Gore Has Some News For You,” by Lauren Elmore, MediaRights, October 3, 2006

“Facebook Confronted With Rising Opposition to Tracking Features,” by Cecile Daurat, Bloomberg News, September 7, 2006

“Campus Progress: A New Generation of Campus Activism,” by Melissa Monteleone, MediaRights, August 17, 2006

“An ‘Activist’ Problem,” by Alston B. Ramsay, National Review Online, July 24, 2006

“Should Academic Left Defend Churchill?,” by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, July 24, 2006

“Sudan-Divestment Activists Get Act Together,” by Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2006 (Campus Progress-supported campaign)

“Crashing ‘Progressive’ Camp,” by Jacob Laksin, FrontPageMagazine.com, July 18, 2006

“A Glimpse at the Future,” by Joseph Hughes, TPMCafe.com, July 17, 2006

“On Fat Joe and Breaking the Rules,” by Sara Gordon, Independent Women’s Forum, July 17, 2006

“Liberal Students Strategize, Cheerlead at National Conference,” by Lydia DePillis, Columbia Spectator, July 15, 2006

“Latino Youth Face ‘Apathy and lack of Leadership’,” by Mitzi Macias, Washington Hispanic, July 14, 2006

“Today’s Activism: The Art of the Possible,” by Adam Jentleson and Elana Berkowitz, WashingtonPost.com, July 14, 2006

“Young (Cowardly) Conservatives,” by Evan Derkacz, AlterNet, July 14, 2006

“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Nation?,” The Nation, July 14, 2006

“Student Conference Aims to Spark Political Activism on Campus,” by Kristin Brown, 49 ABC News, July 13, 2006

“Campus Progress, Round Two,” by Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation, July 13, 2006

“Organizing the Campus Left,” Elia Powers, Inside Higher Ed, July 13, 2006

“Panel Disagrees on Solution to Higher Education Costs,” by Jared Taylor, Iowa State Daily (Iowa State University), July 13, 2006

“Rapper Fat Joe: Women Are Hos. Uh, and Smart, Beautiful Mothers,” by Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, July 13, 2006. To read, watch, and hear what Fat Joe actually said at our conference, go here.

“Obama’s Message to Young Liberals,” by Marni Goldberg, Chicago Tribune, July 12, 2006

“Campus Progress: Liberals, Conservatives Target Youth,” by Gillian Gillers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 12, 2006

“Academic Manifesto Takes Root,” by Valerie Richardson, Washington Times, July 3, 2006

“Training the Left to Win,” by Leif Utne, Utne Magazine, July/August 2006

“Breaking Through on American Campuses,” by Sara Gruen, AlterNet, June 21, 2006

“Ex-Liberal Navigates Right,” by Mary Beth Marklein, USA Today, May 31, 2006 (Campus Progress-supported campaign)

“Fact-Checking David Horowitz,” by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, May 9, 2006 (Free Exchange on Campus coalition)

“Group Criticizes Horowitz’s Book on ‘Dangerous’ Professors,” by Jennifer Jacobson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9, 2006 (Free Exchange on Campus coalition)

“Student-Driven Sudan Divestment Campaign Grows,” by Philip Rucker, New York Times, April 26, 2006. (Campus Progress-supported campaign)

“Former Leader of Black Panthers Warns of Nation’s Climate,” by Ryan Rendleman, Daily Egyptian (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale), April 25, 2006

“Development Not Just About Women, Expert Says,” by Katie Griffin, The Brown and White (Lehigh University), April 20, 2006

“International Debt Should Be Forgiven, Speaker Says,” by Natasha Volkers, The Brown and White (Lehigh University), April 20, 2006

“Progressive Group Gets Funds,” by Andrew Perechocky, Wesleyan Argus (Wesleyan University), April 18, 2006

“Illinois Capital to Vote on War,” by Philip Ewing, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 12, 2006 (Campus Progress-supported campaign)

“Frank: Dems ‘Just suck’,” by Cullen Macbeth, Yale Daily News (Yale University), April 4, 2006

“Siddique Furthers Progressive Cause,” by Brett Amelkin, Daily Princetonian (Princeton University), February 20, 2006

“Author Lists ‘Most Dangerous’ Profs,” by Benjamin J. Salkowe, Harvard Crimson (Harvard University), February 16, 2006

“The New Face of the Campus Left,” by Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation, February 13, 2006

“On Campus: Conservatives Winning with Ideas,” by Nathanael Blake, Townhall.com, February 3, 2006

“Podesta Encourages More Student Political Involvement,” by Jessica Runnion, Columbia Chronicle (Columbia College – Chicago), January 30, 2006

“Group protests Alito with photo petition in Tangeman,” by Meghan Goth, News Record (University of Cincinnati), January 26, 2006

“Campus Groups Mark ‘Roe’ Anniversary,” by Richard Strohmenger, Daily Pennsylvanian (UPenn), January 18, 2006

“Speaker informs college students on judicial nomination process,” by Mark Hengel, Log Cabin Democrat, January 18, 2006

“Alliance Protests Support of Alito,” by Kristen Huth, The Collegian (Penn State), January 17, 2006

“Advocacy Group VP Criticizes Alito,” by Maxwell Weidmann, Daily Princetonian (Princeton University), January 13, 2006

“UNC professor: Supreme Court’s future perilous,” by Jess Davis, The Gamecock (U. of South Carolina), January 13, 2006

CNN’s Situation Room – Coverage of Alito’s America campaign (Quicktime) – January 9, 2006

CNN’s Situation Room – Coverage of Alito’s America campaign (Quicktime) – January 6, 2006

“Just Say Nano,” by Seth Stern, Congressional Quarterly Weekly, December 30, 2005

Elana Berkowitz and John Burton’s article on student loan debt, originally appearing on CampusProgress.org, was featured on AlterNet and in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 4, 2005.

“Ad Hoc to Tackle the Big Issues,” by Ian Corey-Boulet, Columbia Daily Spectator, November 11, 2005

“Calif. votes against all eight props,” by Amit Arora, the Stanford Daily (Stanford University), November 9, 2005

“Activism Subdued, But Artists Press On,” by Todd Martens, Billboard, October 28, 2005

“Progressive Magazine Diskord Receives Campus Progress Grant,” by Jack Rosner, Chicago Maroon (University of Chicago), October 25, 2005

“Speaker Says Hurricane Exposed GOP,” by Paula Dohnal, Wisconsin State Journal, October 11, 2005

“Podesta bashes conservative philosophy,” by Heather Quitos, University of Wisconsin Badger Herald, October 11, 2005

Radio interview with Campus Progress’ Andrew Garib about “What it Means to be Progressive.” “Danuta Time” on KOPT 1600 AM, Oregon’s Progressive Talk, October 5th, 2005

“Liberal Magazines to Merge,” by Alexie Rothman, Daily Princetonian, September 16, 2005

“Politics Comes to Campus,” by Shepherd Pittman, Washington Times, September 15, 2005.

“Foo Fighters Take Chances With New Disc,” by Solvej Schou, Associated Press, September 9, 2005

“Progressives Take a Page from Conservative Networks,” by Peter Overby, NPR, August 18, 2005 (audio)

“Speaking of the Future Establishment,” by Kristina Rizga, AlterNet, August 1, 2005

“Left Follows the Right on Campus Outreach Path,” by Cynthia H. Cho, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2005

“Generation Next,” by Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation, July 19, 2005

“Clinton Exhorts Students,” by Megan Doughty, Capital Times/Medill News Service, July 14, 2005

“Clinton Seeks Democratic Resurgence at Progressive Youth Conference,” by Kristen Green, Kansan City InfoZine, July 14, 2005

“Clinton and Other Democratic Leaders Urge Young Liberals to Get Involved,” by Brian Faler, Washington Post, July 14, 2005

“The One and Only President Clinton (for Now),” by Dana Milbank, Washington Post, July 14, 2005

“Clinton: Court Was ‘Wrong’ on Eminent Domain,” by Josh Gerstein, New York Sun, July 14, 2005

“Ted Leo on panel at Campus Progress,” by LookoutRecords.com, July 13, 2005

“My right-wing degree: How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas,” by Jeff Horwitz, Salon, May 24, 2005

The Princeton student Filibuster Frist effort, whose five sponsors included Campus Progress and the Campus Progress-backed Princeton Progressive Review, certainly got in the news. C-SPAN has replayed the May 12 Fristabuster Capitol rally, featuring Princeton students Karen Wolfgang and Peter Turner, Senators Jon Corzine and Chuck Schumer, Representatives Rush Holt and Frank Pallone, People For the American Way’s Ralph Neas, and Campus Progress’s David Halperin.

“Lessons on ‘values voters’ in demand,” by Julia Duin, Washington Times, May 11, 2005

“Filmmaker enjoys success of Moore documentary,” by Chris Peterson, Daily Herald, May 9, 2005

“Student is serious about his satire,” by Amy Wilson, Lexington Herald-Reader, April 24, 2005

“Panelists clash over U.N. nominee,” by Shawn Ban, Brown Daily Herald, April 14, 2005

“Bolton’s controversial quotes interpreted differently,” by Elizabeth Gudrais, Providence Journal, April 14, 2005

“Documenting the Cost of Free Speech,” by Richard Leiby, Washington Post, March 27, 2005

“UVSC Film goes on national tour,” by Sam Garfield, NetXNews, March 21, 2005

“Taking Back the Campuses,” by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation, March 18, 2005

“Film on Moore visit to go on tour,” by Mark Eddington, Salt Lake Tribune, Mar. 17, 2005

“Campus Group Tweaks Coulter with Book Titles,” by Dave Astor, Editor & Publisher, Mar. 2, 2005

“Ann Coulter and the Title Fight,” by Richard Leiby, Washington Post, Mar. 2, 2005

“EDWARDS: Ohio Still On Mrs. E’s Mind (And Guess Who Loves Blogs)”, National Journal, Feb. 28, 2005

Campus Progress programs director Ben Hubbard appeared Feb. 18 on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” Asheesh Siddique, editor of the Campus Progress-supported Princeton Progressive Review, appeared Feb. 19 on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Both discussed free speech, left versus right controversies on campus, and Campus Progress.

“Free Press receives $1,500 from think tank,” by Alex Belser, The Dartmouth (Dartmouth College), Feb. 18, 2005

“Panel Debates Black Vote”, by Melanie R. Holmes, The Hilltop (Howard University), Feb. 18, 2005

“WWW.CAMPUSPROGRESS.AWESOME”, by Mark Leon Goldberg, TAPPED, The American Prospect Online, Feb. 16, 2005

“The Fight for Students’ Minds,” by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, Feb.16, 2005

“Liberal mag receives funds,” by Alexie Rothman, Daily Princetonian, Feb. 16, 2005

“College students discuss America’s role in Iraq, Sudan and tsunami,” by Jennifer Nedeau, U-Wire (DC Bureau), Feb. 15, 2005

Media Notes, By Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2005

“Are Students Red or Blue?” by Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation, Dec. 22, 2004

“Illiberal education” By Ben Hubbard and David Halperin, Boston Globe, Sept. 12, 2004