“A few years ago,” the Washington Times reported in a story last year, “Jeff O’Holleran said he began to realize that he was different from the other boys he knew…. Yesterday, he said, it was time to come out of the closet.
Although both conservative and progressive students organize on campus, the sum total of activist students is small compared to the overall student population.
The Pioneer Institute has engaged in a well-funded, well-connected effort to influence the direction of politics in Massachusetts, a historically liberal state that has elected Republican governors and adopted many right-wing policies.
