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Documentary by UW students asks: Is Generation Y uniquely apathetic?

UW-Madison students exploring political activism of today’s youth released a short documentary on Friday titled “Youthanized.”

The video, which is available at www.youtube.com/youthanized, compares activism of today’s UW students with those of the late 1960s and early 1970s — when Madison was a national hot spot for Vietnam War protestors.

The documentary, which started to take shape in the fall of 2007 as a school project for Mark Korshak, begins by posing the question, “Is Generation Y uniquely apathetic?”