This article is first in a three-part series on the changing face of student activism on college campuses. This article talks about the Campus Leadership Program and its recuitment efforts to promote conservatism on college campuses. Ryan J. Sorba is a conservative activist who has come to Bentley College's Student Union to help recruit new members for a chapter of Students for Saving Social Security. Sorba is the Boston-area recruiter for the Campus Leadership Program, a decade-old venture that sends students and recent graduates to colleges to help conservative students start clubs and publications there. The program's goal is simple: to establish a conservative beachhead on every college campus in America. Recruiters like Sorba encourage conservative students to see themselves as the new counterculture, as campus revolutionaries challenging the liberal academic establishment.