The government or police have occasionally interfered in the university's operations because it has long been a source of political activism.
Anti-Israel activists already have plenty of campus resources at their disposal, and it's simply offensive to insist that Hillels become yet another source of such activism.
The moralistic cloak was used to cover the true source of their activism--their animosity and contempt for groups they targeted.
Cheese, Vinegar, Activism The source of all this activity is a prosperous town half an hour from Bologna that is famous for its Parmesan cheese and its balsamic vinegar, and where one recent afternoon, shoppers and people on bikes crowded the pork and toy stalls on the Corso Garibaldi in front of the huddled ochre houses.
The result was an issue where pastors led and politicians of both parties followed, where the institutional churches proved their worth as both sources of moral authority and hubs of activism, and where religious witness helped forge a genuine national consensus on an issue where even presidents feared to tread.
It's a lot easier, and more fun, to experience the war as a passive form of entertainment than as a source of moral distress requiring citizen activism," Almond wrote.
The diversity of activism today represents a potential source of strength.
On New Year's Eve , 1983 a bloodless coup overthrew civilian rule, and for the next sixteen years a series of military dictators from northern Nigeria treated Lagos, the country's center of democratic activism, as a source of personal enrichment.
Peyton, like Edwards, wants his church to be a source of moral clarity and purpose, without overt activism becoming its sole function during trying times.
The decline of activism is partly cyclical.
