Do you want to make a difference on your college campus and shape the future of your country? One powerful way to do so is to join a political party. Can you really become involved in the political arena while still studying? In this article, we'll look at the opportunities and challenges that American students
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require colleges to treat men and women equally. it did not give the federal government the power to micromanage the systems. reporter: the dear colleague letter is what s known as significant guidance document. but was it more than that? does it just offer guidance to universities or does it have if colleges and universities don t comply with the nation s civil rights laws their federal funding can be withheld. the guidance though was exactly martha, as you indicated, it was guide lance. reporter: this letter of guidance struck like a thunderbolt. now every campus across america was on notice, not that it came entirely out of the blue. for some time there had been a growing movement demanding a change to campus policies. you had women s advocates and victims advocates saying their claims of sexual assault were not being taken seriously. reporter: ash scow of the washington examiner has written often about the issue of sexual assault on campus.
in san francisco. reporter: more than ever today the war on tobacco is being waged on campus. 774 universities and colleges have strictly limited where students and staff can light up and more than 560 have banned tobacco use all together. they are not saying you can t ever smoke, what they are saying is you can t smoke in ways that would harm other people and that s why these campus policies apply to indoors and outdoors. reporter: while no one wants to breathe unhealthy air many students and faculty members argue lighting up helps them relax or focus. even many nonsmokers say all-out bans go too far. the smoking ban represents another in a long line of steps by the state and local governments to try to unnecessarily restrict a peaceful behavior and i think that is something that should not be tolerated in a free society. reporter: this year alone more than 125 campuses have snuffed out smoking and dozens more will soon do so. california s public universities, including u. c
summer, parents send their kids off to college campuses for sports camps, for academic camps and i think it s a constant reminder for us that we need to think about the kinds of policies, both campus policies and government policies, that help to keep all of us, from faculty to students to summer campers, safe in these kind of spaces. melissa harris-perry, good to have you joining our kompcoveras we wait for more answers to come from virginia tech authorities. again, they continue with this alert on campus and the lockdown but there have not been other credible sightings of the person they believe to be a person of interest, that these three young campers reported seeing this morning. the other breaking news we re following happens to be coming from wall street and the markets around the world. london closing its markets today down 3.4%. that s a loss of $200 billion on just one day with the drop of more than 350 points. let s take a look at what the american markets are doing righ