About two months ago, I wrote a story for my campus newspaper on Haiti earthquake relief at UC Davis. When I interviewed a graduate who was organizing relief efforts, he told me he hoped a campus-wide relief effort would help prove that ours is not an apathetic generation. The idea...

At approximately 11:30 A.M. today, UC Davis broke out in protest. Marchers gathered on the school's Quad, fire alarms in Wellman (one of the school's largest classroom buildings) were pulled, and news cameras affixed themselves indefinitely to the scene. Protesters rallied against student fee increases as well as the homophobic...