To examine the relationship between political discontent and political behavior, questionnaires were administered to 1500 college students. Such a relationship was found to be complex and multi-dimensional. Feelings of efficacy, for example, play a crucial role. Moreover, the mobilization of political discontent can take a variety of forms.…

Reviews connections between speech communication as a discipline and active commitments to First Amendment principles. Reflects on the influence of Professor James O'Neil, principal founder of the Speech Communication Association and offers his example as a role model. (PD)

This study investigated the moderating effects of perceived outcome on the relationship between activism (social action) in the form of anti-pollution behavior and locus of control (I-E). Among subjects optimistic about future levels of pollution, internally-oriented individuals engaged in more anti-pollution activities and had more accurate…

A discussion of what "political" means--performing, acting, and participating in public arenas; a presentation of self; a showing and telling; an ongoing demonstration; and a continuous effort to disprove authority--and of how political activity belongs in a political science classroom. (ND)

This study focused on how student activists' perceptions of institutional culture affect the nature and extent of their behaviors. Student activism was defined as more than just organizational involvement; instead, it implied involvement in and commitment to social change or social justice. Interviews were conducted with 26 student activists at a…

This article attempts to provide the practicing college administrator with a guide to help minimize disruptions in the educational process and protect him from costly litigation. (Author)

This paper reports two studies designed to examine the hypothesis that political participation reaches optimum levels among those groups where political trust is low and political efficacy is high. (Author/KM)

The prestige of the universities, their autonomy, and the current reversal of their fortunes are explained by an analysis of their role as a stabilizing mechanism for the labor market and the unwillingness of the public to pay the price of maintaining this mechanism. (DM)

The militant posture of Black Student Unions during the sixties were essentially provocative symbolism, which tended to obscure the essentially conservative political and institutional outlook of the Afro-American nationalist movement on campus. (DM)

The present study was designed to assess some of the attitudinal and ideological factors associated with varying degrees of activism, or participation in political and social protest activities. (Author/JB)

Reexamines the issue of the usefulness of the internal-external concept in understanding commitment to social-political action and evaluates the empirical intactness of Rotter's Internal-External (I-E) scale. The main findigns were that: (a) the two item clusters from the I-E scale were uncorrelated; and (b) political commitment was predicted by…

Author feels that a national that can send men to the moon should be able to rid itself of social unrest. (HS)

Summarizes a study made to determine the causes of the escalating university-community tension across the nation. The study focused on campus form (the layout of campus buildings, the spatial distribution of campus activities, and the corresponding form of the surrounding community) as a factor in university-community tension. (Author/DN)