According to Rule 44 of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of Public Policy Process “moral outrage is the most powerful motivating tool in politics."  Wise student activists can put this rule to use to bring about real change on their campuses.

A recent article on Minding the Campus asks the question:  How can we fix our politically correct universities?  The answer, in short, is by putting Rule 44 into practice.

This is something that the left has been doing for years.  In his book, Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky wrote, “the powerless can discomfort the powerful by pointing out when the high and mighty fall short of their professed ideals."

You can discomfort the powerful on your campus by starting your own student paper.  This will give you the legitimacy, and the ability to show a large audience how the left falls short of their professed ideals.  The ability to show moral outrage to a large audience is essential:  You can’t motivate your base or change your targe's behavior without it.  To paraphrase Victor Davis Hanson, public shaming is much more powerful than personal guilt.

At this point, inspiring journalists are sure to be asking:  How can I discomfort the left and show moral outrage?  The Minding the Campus article suggests a number of topics which might be covered in this endeavor:

• Why is it greedy for businesspeople to want higher profits, but idealistic for university professors to want higher salaries?
• If academics really believe in freedom of speech, why will they never host an anti-affirmative action or pro-war speaker?
• If Middle Eastern studies departments really believe in women's rights, why do they praise Hamas and boycott Israel?
  

All of these issues and more can be effectively explored in a campus paper.

A newspaper is one of the greatest tools in the battle of ideas.  The left understands this; it’s why they took control of newspapers long ago.  It is time for the right to end this monopoly on the distribution of news and opinion on campus.

If you want to start your own campus paper, CampusReform.com can help!  Please contact the Campus Reform staffer for your region.  They can help throughout the entire process, from design, to distribution.  Get involved by starting your own newspaper today!