From: Aaron Kreider (Aaron.Kreider.1@nd.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 00:09:37 EDT
I think that USAS's initial concentration on school licensing programs has
a small negative effect on making the class nature of our movement
("better" schools have big licensing programs), but there is a similar
predominance of elite schools in other student movements (environmental,
peace, anti-corporate, etc).
I suspect there is a correlation between residential campuses and highly
ranked schools (where could i find this out???), and there is definitely
one between residential campuses and levels of activism -- because it's
easier to organize your friends/neighbors. So part of the effect we're
observing might be due to the effect of residential campuses.
I hope that by expanding USAS's focus to include community and campus
worker solidarity campaigns (living wage, organizing staff and students
into unions, etc) that the movement will diversify in terms of race and
class. Though unless USAS takes major action, if we're realistic we won't
expect large demographics shifts. Another critical part is that if
activism work is unpaid, it'll be dominated by people who have the
resources (time or money) to do it. It's easy to say you want diversity -
it's a totally different thing to actually achieve it.
Peace,
Aaron
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