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The following is Mother Jones magazine's writeup about Roosevelt in its "annual roundup of college campus activism." To read the entire feature, click here. The Thought That Counts Last fall, Stanford sophomore Quinn Wilhelmi and grad student Kai Stinchcombe were looking for a way for campus progressives to get out of the postelection doldrums. Their solution was to found the Roosevelt Institution, a student-run think tank modeled after their campus' own Hoover Institution, but without all the right-wingers or buckets of cash. They soon found they weren't alone: Fellow wonks on other campuses were putting together their own DIY policy shops, and by spring more than 20 campuses had opened chapters of the Roosevelt Institution. The budding brain trusts' first assignment: getting beyond the drawing board
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