Chen Hsin-hsing says that campus publications and dissident groups in the past were very popular, and young people with a mind to be a part of public discourse were all adept at writing essays, shouting slogans, and leading movements. They liked to go to campus events to chat and debate, and nearly every one of them could reel off a cogent set of arguments on leftist theory or democratic thought.
陳信行說，過去台灣的校園刊物及異議性社團相當盛行，有志投入公共事務的年輕人，個個都是寫文章、想口號、搞活動的高手，也習慣透過社團的定期聚會交流辯論，幾乎人人講起左派理論、民主思潮都頭頭是道。