What has changed the most is the absence of political concern for a national issue. Vietnam was a national issue. Today, students are not activists because they are so damn busy . . . Nowadays students pretty much expect it. Attitudes have changed because students work so much harder today.
Students are more conservative now and more vocationally oriented.
Twenty years ago, there was a certain climate that led to more questioning as to the status quo. There were more active issues such as the Civil Rights movement that made students more active. During the Vietnam War, students were more directly concerned with government policies. Quotes compiled by Lisa Bales and Gregory James Kennedy.