I nterviewing student activists isn't easy. Sure, once I finally get them to sit down and talk to me, everything goes fairly smoothly. Because they're so damn busy trying to save the world and get a university degree at the same time that they hardly have time to sit down, with all the facilitating workshops and organising demonstrations and writing term papers and all.
University campuses have a long-standing reputation as hotbeds of political and social activism.
Campus life bears certain romantic connotations of heated debate and radical ideologies. Whether this is a reality or not is another story, but university students have managed to be central to some of the most significant protest movements of the 20th century. Friday was the last day of Storm the Wall, and it was a warm sunny day. Nice change from the three days of cold and rain that came before. Because repeatedly slamming yourself into a wet wall isn't as fun as it looks.