Question: Radical Right on Campus

Hi rad ref. I'm working on an article on the radical right on college campuses for an upcoming indy article. I need information on three things: one is about congresional legislation that would impose some sort of government control ov er area studies programs. The second is info on an "affirmative action for conservative college profs." that has been going around. The third are articles on protest warriors, esp. ones that refer to them as "young" or "college aged." I mostly need GOOD sources at this point, not a summary, but overview articles containing a lot of info on any of these topics would be great.

Question: Radical Right on Campus

Question A:

The bill that I think you are referring to is the "International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2003". Here's a summary of the bill.

Here's a more critical summary can be found at the Project Censored web site.

The whole bill can be found by on

Thomas
, official congressional records on the Library of Congress' web site. In the search box, type: International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2003

A search of Academic Search Premier (a commercial database available at many academic and large public libraries) revealed a few promising articles. Below are few.

Question B:

It appears that David Horowitz is the key figure behind a proposal called the "Academic Bill of Rights". This is the main "affirmative action for conservative professors" that I came across. He has sent the bill to state legislators in Colorado and Georgia, among other states. There are a lot of
articles about the "Academic Bill of Rights" on
Horowitz's web site which support his position. Horowitz also has an online magazine Front Page

A quick online search revealed a few news articles:

As far as scholarly work on the subject goes, I was able to find several articles in the Academic Search Premier database. All of the material was news coverage and was not peer reviewed. Here are few articles that looked promising.

I also looked in the Lexis-Nexis data base and found 52 articles about the "Academic Bill of Rights". There was a lot coverage in Denver papers because Colorado was a state in which the legislation was introduced to the state house. It was also the site of campus incidents that gained national
attention. These two articles looked to be good introductions to the subject.

If you are after other newspaper articles, it would be wise to contact a public or academic library that has newspaper databases like National Newspaper Index or Lexis Academic.
There appear to be many articles on this topic.

Question C:

There are different kinds of information on "protest warriors". If you want news articles I would suggest
searching Lexis-Nexis or Pro Quest databases (available at academic or large public libraries, or by library ID card remote access). If you are more interested in scholarly work, I would look at Academic Search Premier. Or, if you have a very specific idea any social science index would be good to search. People have written whole books about social movements, so you will probably have to do bit of looking around for the information that you want about young activists.

Thanks

Jonny Cope