Who says only liberals students can be campus activists? College campuses would be better off if more conservative and libertarian students spoke out like this.

Andrea Billups of Newsmax reports.

Student Conservatives Muster Voters, Awareness on College Campuses

John Publicover was barely 18 when he decided he needed to learn more about the political process so he could cast an intelligent vote. The University of Tampa student visited the college’s Democratic group first and then listened to the student Republicans.

His conclusion: The conservative view “just made the most sense to me,” he told Newsmax.

Nearly two years later, Publicover has launched his own voter registration drive, not only on his own Florida campus but also at 14 schools around the country.

The international finance and business major, who is studying far from his home in Derry, N.H., said more college conservatives are speaking up and not just going along with the traditional generational spin.

Publicover seeks not only to get student voters to the polls but also to better educate them on conservative values and principles.

“I feel college students aren’t educated about politics as much as they should be. This is why too many are blue voters, not red. We want to change that demographic as we move forward,” said Publicover.

Winfield Myers, a higher education analyst who has worked with campus political groups, called the effort courageous.

“College students who self-identify as conservatives know they’re bucking the dominant, and often domineering, left-wing culture on most campuses, so efforts to register like-minded students to vote lends them a counter-cultural flair,” Myers told Newsmax.

“Their professors are overwhelmingly left-wing and many are infamous for punishing students who rebel against them. Bloated university administrations reinforce left-wing orthodoxies through speech codes that restrict debate, diversity initiatives that enforce intellectual homogeneity, and student life programs that browbeat students to accept liberal pieties,” Myers said.