Press: Conservative Rebels on Campus

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In fairness, conservative publications need time to take hold. Peter Keisler, an editor of Yale's Free Press, contends that "lasting ideologies do not come overnight." A potential audience is certainly there. Notes Karen Tilbor, Princeton University's assistant dean of student affairs: "These are conservative times on campus." The problem for the right-wing press is to find a persuasive tone. Dartmouth's Review has grabbed at lapels and won attention but few friends. The question for conservative college editors is whether a more intellectual, less visceral approach can build a following and win a few victories for their cause.

—By William A. Henry III. Reported by Joelle Attinger/Boston