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UCLA School of Dentistry, Westwood Campus supervised by Clinical Faculty of the Center of Esthetic Dentistry. www.CampusCircle.com CAMPUS CIRCLE March 2016 3 NEWS COLLEGE FRESHMEN ARE KEEN ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, SURVEY SHOWS BY TERESA WATANABE LOS ANGELES TIMES (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Today’s American college freshman is more recent wave of protests against police shootings of African- And 43 percent of those surveyed said colleges should have the liberal, less religious and increasingly committed to civic in- American men and student demonstrations against campus right to ban extreme speakers, up from 25 percent in 1971. volvement and political activism compared with those in pre- treatment of minorities at Claremont McKenna College and Eagan said he understood student concerns that deroga- vious generations, according to a national survey by research- Occidental College in Southern California, the University of tory speech could lead to violence or harm students. “At the ers at the University of California, Los Angeles. Missouri and elsewhere. same time, institutions need to make sure we aren’t insulating Nearly 60 percent of freshmen said they expected to vote Whether the enhanced political interest will affect the students from ideas that may be counter to their narratives,” sometime during their college years, and majorities supported presidential election this year is another matter. he said. same-sex marriage, abortion rights, affirmative action, legaliza- Although Barack Obama produced a record turnout of The proportion of students who did not affiliate with a tion of marijuana and equal pay for women. They also over- young voters in 2008 — and won the backing of 66 percent of religion grew to 29.5 percent, an all-time high since the survey whelmingly opposed U.S. involvement in other countries’ wars. those under 30 years old — young people still have the lowest began. Freshmen also continued to report that they studied “Collectively, the findings suggest that more students voting rates of any age group. more and partied less in their last year of high school than are committed to social justice,” said Kevin Eagan, director of “We certainly see students embracing more of the pro- previous classes. UCLA’s cooperative institutional research program, which has gressive perspectives,” Eagan said. “But will it actually translate For the first time, the survey asked students about their conducted the annual American Freshman survey for the last to action? sexual orientation and gender identity and found that those 50 years. “That may be why they are the most committed to po- “If they organize, protest and show up at the polls, they who described themselves as bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer or litical and civic engagement of any of the previous 49 classes.” may have a role in shaping the public discourse on issues re- “other” more frequently felt depressed and overwhelmed than The results released last week showed that one-third of lated to social inequality, equity and discrimination,” he said. the 93.2 percent of students who said they were heterosexual. those surveyed said they were “liberal” or “far left,” the highest “By contrast, if these students do not follow through on their The survey also asked questions about financial aid for proportion in four decades, while one-fifth described them- intentions and goals, the enthusiastic support we’re seeing for the first time. selves as “conservative” or “far right.” addressing social justice concerns will likely diminish, elimi- It found that more than a quarter of freshmen received But their attitudes were markedly different according to nating the potential for a broader impact in politics or Ameri- a federal Pell Grant — an annual award of up to $5,775 for race and ethnicity. can life.” low-income students — and they were disproportionately La- Although interest in political and civic activism has The researchers surveyed more than 141,000 first-time, tino and African-American. Those students worried far more grown among all students, African-American and Latino stu- full-time students who entered 199 four-year U.S. colleges and than others about their ability to pay for college and had to dents were far more likely than Asians and whites to expect to universities in 2015. scramble more to take out loans, find work-study jobs and seek participate in a campus demonstration. They were also more Despite their overall embrace of liberal views, today’s other ways to foot their educational bills. likely to believe it important to promote racial understanding freshmen are more likely to support restrictions on free speech The UCLA institute plans to release another analysis in and influence politics. — a trend that has led to controversial student movements to June that will provide more detail about how college freshmen For instance, only 6 percent of Asians planned to partici- disinvite commencement speakers, disrupt presentations by have changed over the 50 years of the surveys. pate in a protest or felt it important to influence politics, com- those with unpopular views and demand “trigger warnings” ——— pared with more than twice that share for African-Americans. before uttering potentially uncomfortable speech. ©2016 Los Angeles Times The UCLA researchers said the heightened interest in po- Support for banning racist and sexist speech on campus Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com litical activism could be the result of students witnessing the reached 70.9 percent in 2015, up from 58.9 percent in 1992. 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