Most colleges and universities are not what they pretend to be.  They are not places for inquiring minds to learn in an open market of ideas.
 
In fact, they are leftist indoctrination centers which systematically attack and often exclude ideas and people favorable to limited government, free enterprise, strong national defense, and traditional values.
 
No wonder the college experience turns so many students to the left.  Most of those in power in academia are leftists, and they intend that result.  The guilty administrators, faculty, official school newspapers, student governments, leftist student groups, and others know exactly what they are doing.  They would like to exterminate any presentation of conservative or free-market principles, and they take personal satisfaction from the results of their leftist abuses and bias.
 
CampusReform.org offers many ideas and resources for conservative activists, but the best way for you to fight and defeat the campus left is to identify, expose, and combat their abuses and bias yourself.
 
CampusReform.org makes it simple and fun to do this.
 
Because the left has a monoply on most campuses, their abuses and bias are usually suffered in silence.  Except for their personal experience, most conservative students have no idea of all the abuses going on around them.  Except for chance acquaintances, they have had no way even to identify fellow conservatives in their student bodies.
 
First, look at this website's list of Leftist Abuses and Bias on Campus.  This is far from a complete list, but it will give you an idea of leftist abuses common across American higher education.
 
From that list or from your personal experience, identify a leftist abuse on your campus.  Any abuse is outrageous and indefensible if you decide to make an issue of it.  Rely on what you already know to be true and what you can find out for certain.
 
CampusReform.org makes it easy for you to recruit others to help you make an issue of it. 
 
If yours is one of the more than 500 campuses which already has one or more of the more than 1,000  independent conservative student groups across America, go to the CampusReform.org subsite for your campus, join such a club there if you can, and persuade them to help you challenge the outrageous abuse you have identified.
 
If your campus does not yet have such a club, go to the subsite for your campus on CampusReform.org, use social networking there to recruit other students, form a new club with them, and begin your work to combat leftist abuses and bias on campus.
 
You will find that Cam;pusRreform.org and the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program make it very easy to start your own independent campus club.
 
Now comes the most exciting part.
 
In CampusReform' s section of Activism Resources, you'll find a powerful little manual called "Fight Back."  It outlines for you a three-part plan of public relations, political, and legal pressure which almost always works to defeat leftist abuses and bias and to deter other, similar abuses in the future.
 
Study "Fight Back" carefully, and use the techniques it describes.
 
The left will not like your challenge, and will almost certainly use lies and distortions to try to discredit you if they can, so proceed carefully.  But keep the pressure up and increase it if you can.  It's better to slightly understate than to overstate your case.  Don't necessarily fire all of your facts at once.  Release enough to earn some good media coverage.  Keep the story alive and growing by revealing some new information or additional proof later, preferably after the left has responded.
 
Don't fail to show a high level of moral indignation against the abuses you are fighting.  The news media and your fellow students may appreciate cleverness, but they react negatively to unfairness if you properly call it to their attention.
 
Moral indignation is one of the most powerful human emotions.  It is seldom engaged, but when it is, it tends to cause real changes because it's highly contagious.
 
Leftist abuses and bias are newsworthy -- if you shine a light on them,  Local, state, and even national news media may cover your disclosures.  The left hates that.  They have to respond, which makes your news story bigger.  Conservative print, broadcast, and online media should have a keen interest in helping you get your newsworthy issues to the public.
 
If you take the lead on your campus, others will join in and help you there through CampusReform.org,  You will certainly embarrass the left, and you may force them  to stop some of their abuses,  If hundreds or thousands take similar actions at colleges across America. the left will lose a lot of battles and find themselves on the defensive for the first time in many, many years.

HOW TO TAKE ACTION
 
1. Collect the information you need for the effort.  Review the list of Leftist Abuses and Bias on Campus.  Identify an abuse or bias you want to challenge.  The materials you collect for use may include your personal statement of what happened to you, statements of witnesses, photographs, video or audio recordings, quotes from people who share your outrage, previous news coverage, and/or the results of valuable research.
 
2. Plan your exposure of the leftist abuse or bias you have identified.  You may decide to release your information by a news release or in a prepared statement at a news conference.  Gather a list of the contact information for local and state print, broadcast, and online media you will inform.  Carefully prepare the statements and any exhibits you will release.  At a news conference, reporters may ask you tough questions.  If you have your facts right and your hands are clean, you can handle any question asked.  Your news release should include the phone number and email address of an informed and articulate spokesperson who is prepared to answer questions and provide additional information.
 
3. Invite allied organizations.  Ask other conservative organizations on campus or in the outside community to contribute to the purchase of supplies of to provide manpower for the event itself. This is a great way to strengthen cooperation between different groups in the conservative movement, and to increase attendance and volunteers in the form of members of the other groups.  In fact, you may find that there are organizations that do not identify themselves as “conservative” that will have an interest in intellectual diversity on campus.  These groups are invaluable in combating leftist abuses and bias because it helps you present a nonpartisan image to the campus.
 
4. Advertise!  This depends on the nature of any event you decide to conduct.  For a news conference, you might want to put up posters or flyers around campus to advertise its topic, date, time, and location.  Click here for publicity ideas.
 
5. Prepare for opposition.  Keep a video camera and audio recorders available at all times.  Record any aggression -- verbal or physical.  If someone behaves belligerently, ask why he or she supports abuses or objects to your exercise of your right to free speech.  Take special care if administrators or professors show up to question your event.  Give them whatever respect they deserve, even if they do not accord you the same respect.
 
6. Follow-up.  Take advantage of subsequent earned-media opportunities.  After you send out your news release or hold your news conference, your public relations work isn't over.  Click here to learn some useful ways to generate follow-up publicity.  Identifying and exposing leftist abuses and bias is only half the battle.  You then must update your campus and, perhaps, the rest of the country about subsequent developments.