Baltimore Sun: Student activism is battling apathy

The flier, one among a clutter of paper advertising everything from med-school prep classes to Greek Week 2005, goes largely unnoticed by the backpack-toting students who breeze by a notice board on the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.

“National March on Washington,” it reads. “End the War on Iraq!”

By yesterday afternoon, the Hopkins Anti-War Coalition had signed up about 45 people for Saturday’s demonstration, including graduate students and professors, the driving force behind the coalition.

The relatively small numbers, some say, are a testament to students’ apathy about a war they feel largely disconnected from.

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