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New students more passionate over politics.(NEWSWATCH)
Politics was the passion of students reporting in the annual survey of college first-year students; 35.6% said they discussed politics frequently during the last year, the highest percentage reported since another election year, 1968.
The Higher Education Research Institute based at UCLA released its annual survey of 240,000 freshmen at four-year colleges and universities across the country, tallying their stances on various hot-button issues. Students were surveyed in August and September, before the economy ran south.
The freshmen almost gave their parents' generation of turbulent '60s politics a run for its money. Nearly 12% of the students said they worked on a local, state or national political campaign this year.
"One thing that is interesting this year is that there are so many record highs and lows," said survey director John H. Pryor. "We seem to be seeing some significant changes in our incoming college students in many areas."
Far fewer students rode the political fence. The highest percentage of students since 1973, 31%, identified themselves as liberals. Another ...
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