ACORN wasn't cracked in one day. James O'Keefe, now famous for revealing corruption in that organization, started off the same way each and every Campus Reformer does: outnumbered and overwhelmed on his leftist college campus.
Stunned by how little actual reporting was being done by the campus dailies, O'Keefe became the founding editor of The Centurion at Rutgers. Around the same time, frustrated conservative student Joe Basel started The Counterweight at the University of Minnesota-Morris. Both papers were started with assistance from the Leadership Institute "Balance in Media" grant, which is still available for students starting conservative and libertarian campus publications today.
I had the chance to talk with O'Keefe and Basel and get their advice on how students can become effective leaders through campus publications.
