According to the media, there's a general belief that young voters overwhelmingly support Obamacare. How accurate is that stereotype?

DickMorris.com and The League of American Voters report that a Zogby poll conducted with likely voters in Arkansas, Maine and North Dakota found other results:

Age / Support & Oppose Obama Plan
Under 30 = 25 Support & 65 Oppose
30-49 = 28 Support & 60 Oppose
50-64 = 41 Support & 50 Oppose
Over 65 = 32 Support & 55 Oppose

Last Friday, the University of East Anglia, a public university in England, was hacked. Emails and files -- 172 megabytes of 'em -- from its Climate Research Unit (CRU) were posted online anonymously. The CRU isn't just any outfit. It's described as one of the "most important and influential academic centers for climate research," and is given "heavy weight" in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

So that's why it's particularly distressing that, as the National Association of Scholars so eloquently explains, the files "showed researchers willfully distorting data to promote their own views, collusion aimed at suppressing or marginalizing discrepant material, including attempts to prevent the publication of competing scientific ideas, and a general attitude of zealotry for a cause."

Of course, that sounds suspiciously like what happens on college campuses already.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, CampusReform.org gives thanks for the ideals of higher education. Even when administrators, faculty, and other students fall short, there are still some brave enough to strive for them.

1. Open academic inquiry. In the modern academy, some topics have already been decided.  That's why faculty prefer that students not question global warming (and the massive remaking of the world economy) or show documentaries about the phenomenon on campus, but students across the country are taking action anyway.

2. Free speech and vigorous debate. Trendy, new academic disciplines are constructed to stamp out disagreement, and conservative student papers are stolen from campus, but students across the country are taking action anyway.

3. Fair-minded college administrations. That's why students at Tarrant County College had to get a temporary restraining order to hold a protest on campus, or Elon University is recruiting faculty solely by "diversity" (not of thought, of course) -- but students across the country are taking action anyway.

Campus Regress recently created the following video pitting students against banks: