‘Right On’ on the Campuses

Alternative journalism is the newest fashion on nearly forty elite campuses, a change among students not only in dress and style but also in sensibility. Tired of Sixties nihilism, bored with Seventies narcissism, looking for a future with more than designer jeans and “power dressing,” students at leading institutions are taking to the printed word in a new display of traditional (what until recently were called bourgeois) values.

Last spring more than 35 new campus publications sent their editors to New York City (to the Harvard Club, no less) for a National Conference for Young Journalists. These seventy young men and women, well turned out in dress and phrase, spent the day in the company of a distinguished corps of the nation’s conservative and neoconservative journalists. The force behind the conference, and the golden goose that has hatched these new publications, is the Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA), an energetic, but as yet little-known, foundation overseen by William E. Simon and Irving Kristol together with a distinguished board of scholars and businessmen.

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Philip N. Marcus

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Alternative journalism is the newest fashion on nearly forty elite campuses, a change among students not only in dress and style but also in sensibility. Tired of Sixties nihilism, bored with Seventies narcissism, looking for a future with more than designer jeans and “power dressing,” students at leading institutions are taking to the printed word in a new display of traditional (what until recently were called bourgeois) values.

Last spring more than 35 new campus publications sent their editors to New York City (to the Harvard Club, no less) for a National Conference for Young Journalists. These seventy young men and women, well turned out in dress and phrase, spent the day in the company of a distinguished corps of the nation’s conservative and neoconservative journalists. The force behind the conference, and the golden goose that has hatched these new publications, is the Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA), an energetic, but as yet little-known, foundation overseen by William E. Simon and Irving Kristol together with a distinguished board of scholars and businessmen.