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Three recent wild demands by left-wing college student activists

By Jeremiah Poff
Published February 16, 2022 11:45am ET
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Three recent wild demands by left-wing college student activists
In this July 10, 2013, file photo, prospective students tour Georgetown University's campus in Washington. Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, the president of the prominent Jesuit university in Washington announced Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. | (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

In recent months and years, liberal students have turned to activism to pressure administrators to adopt a slew of left-wing policies.

Last week, at the University of Chicago, a student group demanded that the university spend $1 billion over 20 years on affordable housing in the South Side of Chicago as reparations for slavery.

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