This study reports on long-range consequences of student political activism, studying former civil rights activists, student government members, and apolitical undergraduates; it was hypothesized that variation in political activism would be linked with differing occupations and political orientations. (Author/JM)

A 10 percent random sample survey which elicited the political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as the social backgrounds, of students at the University of Chicago, in 1970, produced data indicating that there is very little direct effect on activism by social background. (Author/JM)