Courtney Martin has another great piece on student activism in the Prospect today. This time around, she argues that the "institutionalization" of student activism, in which students look to the University itself for funds and approval, is "domesticating" us and causing us to remain our Organization Kid selves instead of breaking out of the mold and rebelling against a government and a society that has given us so many injustices.

Martin is insightful, as usual, but I think it's important to take the argument a step further.

The solution to institutionalization is not anti-institutionalization. It's institutionalizing opposition. The problem, in other words, is not institutionalization per se, it's that we youngsters let ourselves be co-opted into other people's institutions.

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