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Jt Fff? y 70s, there ;al activism ale not seen asslevels- ia ve already .(TheadiiH jercentjOt Football Saturdays are the closest thing to an official campus-wide holiday. Over 100,000 raucous Wolverine fans pack the world ' s largest collegiate stadium a half-dozen times every autumn for four hours of music, socializing, The Wave, screaming, Bullwinkle antics, toilet paper-hurling and, ultimately, sports spectating. The hyperactives, as Eldersveld calls them students who engaged in six or more political ac- tivities off the survey ' s list of 14 account for ten percent of the sophomore class and 1 8 percent of the seniors. But if circumstances warrant, a sizable portion of previously inactive students say they would join their active classmates. One-third to more than half of both classes would work on political campaigns, join student political organizations, attend Regents meetings or participate in campus rallies. Thirty-two percent of sophomores and 26 percent of seniors would organize rallies. Almost one-third said they would organize or par- ticipate in sit-ins. I ' m impressed with the latent readiness of students to act, said Eldersveld. Of course, it ' s got to be mobilized. To find out what might move students to take ac- tion, survey respondents were given several scenarios regarding campus and national issues. If the United States invaded Nicaragua, 54 percent of the sophomores and 45 percent of the seniors say they would consider taking action, with opponents of the invasion outnumbering its supporters four to one. Well over half said they would get involved in the controversy over Star Wars research in Michigan. An impressive 88 percent of sophomores and 85 percent of seniors would protest new rules governing student conduct like the ones now under con- sideration if they were drafted without student input. Students will protest only if the issue seems impor- tant and they believe they can accomplish something, Eldersveld said. They do. About 90 percent of those interviewed CONTINUED PROLOGUE 15
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election. Although a majority of those surveyed approved of President Reagan ' s performance, they did not see eye-to-eye with their leader on many issues. For ex- ample, 47 percent of the sophomores and 42 percent of the seniors disapproved of President Reagan ' s Strategic Defense Initiative, a plan for space-based weapons commonly known as Star Wars. Forty percent of sophomores and 47 percent of seniors don ' t support the U.S. government ' s policy on South Africa. Leaders polled were decidedly more liberal than the general student sample, which was tabulated separately. Less than half of them approved of Reagan ' s job performance. All of this indicates a very discriminating in- dependent view of the issues, according to Eldersveld. It may also account for one of the survey ' s most striking findings: quiet as Michigan ' s campus may be compared to the late 60s and early 70s, there is still a considerable amount of political activism here, with a potential for activism on a scale not seen since the Decade of Protest. Fully one-quarter of students of both class levels not including the campus leaders have already engaged in political activity off campus. (The adult norm, according to the report, is ten percent.) On campus, participation varies according to activity. Most students between 66 and 79 percent reported signing petitions or contributing money for political purposes. Smaller but still significant numbers participated in more involved actions: 20 percent of sophomores and 29 percent of seniors have joined campus political organizations; 23 percent of sophomores and 34 percent of seniors have taken part in political rallies. 14 MICHIGAN ENSIAN
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