overwhelming masses of students
campaigning, ijat we will have more
than ever before in an off-year
election,*' says Robert Taylor, of
the Movement for a New Congress,
the Princeton University group
that is coordinating much of the
student involvement in campaings.
Other reports suggest that
student campaign activity in
many states does not involve
much more than the usual "Youth
for"or "Students for" clubs and
the Young Democrat and Young Re
publican orgaiizations.
One poll indicates that four
teen percent of the nation's
students plan to campaign, but
most observers expect the number
to be much smaller than that.
"A lot of students say they plan
to campaign but they vdll never
actually go out and work for a
candidate," said Taylor.
He says the Movement for a New
Congress expected a slackening of
student interest in politics:
"¥e knew that with Cambodia six
months in the past, there would
be a lot less interest than there
was when Cambodia was three days
in the past." But he concedes
that "it's probably died off a
little more than we expected."
The Movement for a New Congress
with chapters on more than 350
campuses, is providing student
help for about seventy candidates,
and twenty-six of them in New
York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Taylor estimated that 50,000 stu
dents will campaign through the
auspices of MNC, with many others
signing up independently v^ith
candidates.
The students believe they have
been fairly successfu so far. Of
thirty primary races they worked on
twenty-five of the candidates they
supported won. Students were in
volved in campaigns in which
liberals defeated verteran Demo
crats in New York, Massacusetts,
Maryland, and Colorado,
/ilthough most students are
campaigning i'or peace candidates
and other liberals, many con
servative politicians have stu
dent organizations working for
them, particularly in the South,
James L. Buckley, the Conser
vative Pary Candidate in New
York, has one of the largest
student groups, organized by
the Young /vmericans for Freedon.
Most of those students will
be campaigning on their o\ n
time. Most colleges and univer
sities rejected the "Princeton
Plan," under which they would
have rearranged their academic
calendars to give suudents two
weeks off prior to the lelection
to campaign if they wished to.
PHILIP W. SEMAS
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FBI LINKED TO C-'.MFUS PATROL
The Federzl Bureau of In
vestigation has contacted at
least seven Rutgers students
this year in pursuit of infor
mation on drug traffic and polit
ical activity on campus, according
to information receiced by the
D ILY T-RGUM, the student news
paper.
Interviews over the past v^jeek
have also revealed' that in at
least one instance Campus Patrol
Chief Michael Borden personally
arranged for an interview.' betw;een
FBI and one of the students.
Borden denied last w’eek that
any students had been asked to
act as informants for any outside
agencies. His superior. Assistant
to the Vice President Robert Ochs,
also said last week, "V'e have
never received a repuest nor
would we tolerate a request to
use students as informants."
' But intervievs and actual
phone conversations have con
firmed that such requests have
been made and have even been
handled by the University, in
the person of Chief Borden.
The first contact reported