The following article appeared in Howard University's student newspaper, The Hilltop, on February 5, entitled, "LaRouche Foundation Campaigns on Campus":

"On many occasions, camped on various sites on campus, people with card tables, cluttered with newsletters and printouts on a Democratic nominee campaigning for the White House in the next election in 2004.

"Lyndon H. LaRouche, a radical Democrat, utilizes many District campuses to advance his platform and Howard is no exception.

"For several years representatives from the LaRouche Foundation[sic] have graced the University's campus, it is a choice venue to solicit supporters who are responsive to the message and are willing to campaign.

"Activism is a tradition on the Univeristy's campus. Last Fall Mother Jones Magazine named Howard number five among the most activist on campus.

"Although members of the University are accustomed to donate support on a cause, some students label LaRouche as a radical leader far to the left of Democrats.

"'I think they are a feeble ploy to get 5 percent of the American popular vote to get federal funding. They (the LaRouche Foundation) are trying to run a political campaign based on conspiracy theories and you can't do that,' said Brian Chamberlayne, a sophomore political science major.

"Another student Katrena Harper, echoed the similar sentiments, as Chamberlayne.

"'I am not really sure who LaRouche is, but from the little I have heard, his ideas seem pretty absurd', said Harper, a junior psychology major.

"The power in the United States, when the people allow themselves to be treated like human cattle, which is what people have tended to do-about 80% of the American population has descended to the point of 'going along to get along' with conditions that exist, not really challenging power, but bargaining for favors," LaRouche said on his website.

"According to members of his campaign, LaRouche believes he is an alternative to popular opinion and that may be a reason why his message may seem so radical to onlookers.

"Since he entered the political arena in the late 70's, LaRouche made unsuccessful runs for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination every years since 1976 and served as US Representative for Virginia in 1990's [sic].

"Last year, LaRouche spearheaded a movement involving local residents and students advocating District lawmakers to keep D.C. General Hospital open.

"LaRouche said it was important to fight to keep the hospital open because of what he calls the declining healthcare situation in America in an interview with Washington radio station WOL.

"In the last 30 years since Kennedy and King were assassinated the country has taken a drastic shift in implementing policies that are treasonous, and alongside with popular opinion that passes false information as truth according to a LaRouche official.

"Some students, however, are not impressed with the views outlined by the LaRouche Foundation. One student, Tiffany Norwood, suggested that the candidate must alter his approach if he wants to make an honest attempt at a presidency.

"'If he has been running since '76 he obviously doesn't have the people's support. He needs to either change his position or just give it up.'"

(Note: the students that were interviewed for the article were part of a Journalism class at which two members of the LaRouche campaign spoke and attacked the mass media.)

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