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Social activism dead on college campuses?

At Columbia University, where students in 1968 took the acting dean of the college hostage, a new class of freshmen will arrive this week and hear about ways to get extra scholarship funding to pay for college.

At New York University, where undergrads in the 1970s held a supercomputer hostage for three weeks, new students will hear about joining community service projects. And at campuses...

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