"Times have changed for student protestors" by Lampert Smith

In this article Lampert Smith recognizes how times have changed for political protests concerning college students in the United States. He recognizes how many students do not find the motivation for joining protests, and instead watch television or do other things. Also, the students that do take interest, are not nearly as emotional/active in the protests. Mainly, Lampert is comparing the modern-day protests with the vehement, anarchy-established protests of the 1960's.

My personal response to this issue is that I share, 100% the observations made by Lampert Smith. Today young people, especially college students, care more about drinking, partying and watching television than they do about their country/political landscape. Whether this be because there is no draft or direct contact with these students, as Smith believes, or if the students simply do not care, I believe it is that latter more than the former. Students over the past forty years have become increasingly selfish and in need of constant satisfaction in their lives, which leads them to care about partying, drinking and watching television more than the more important political topics that will come to affect their adult lives in the real world.