ABSTRACT
The college students working so diligently for the nomination of Senator Eugene McCarthy have several things in common. Another finding was that McCarthy's student supporters are not especially "alienated". Although 50 percent believe that college administrators are not really interested in their students, 80 percent believe that college teachers are. Of course, these McCarthy volunteers were more mature than most students—56 percent were old enough to vote. Against Nelson Rockefeller, Robert F. Kennedy received 77 percent of the votes; McCarthy did even better. Over half of the students, asked to give the most important reason why they had flocked to Senator McCarthy, cited his stand on the Vietnam war. That reason was given by more students than all the other reasons put together—opposition to President Johnson in general, opposition to Robert Kennedy, the desire to express their own viewpoint through McCarthy, and their admiration of McCarthy's courage.
