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IRVINE, Calif. — If campus activism still brings to mind peace signs, a sea of white faces and liberal strongholds like Berkeley, meet Jesse Cheng.By Eric Gorski, The Associated Press Cheng is a third-year Asian-American studies major at the University of California, Irvine, a campus less than five decades old in the middle of Orange County, a place of strip malls and subdivisions that gave birth to the ultraconservative John Birch Society. Comfortable talking with both administrators and anarchists, Cheng is a presence at protests but avoids getting arrested. He doesn't want to put his graduation at risk or upset his mother, who worked hard to get him here and worries for his safety because she witnessed what happened to dissidents in her native China. |
A Look Back: It Doesn’t Matter If It’s “Effective” If Students Won’t Do It
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(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one
appeared in 2014. You can see them all here) An article in District
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