There's a great feature length article @ Time on "the New Right".   It should be music to the ears of Libertarians everywhere although I think the author had a tough time really understanding the what libertarianism is really about -

But while professors may lean left, many students are tilting right — especially toward that brand of conservatism known as libertarianism.

...A majority of 2003 freshmen--53%--wanted affirmative action abolished, compared with only 43% of all adults. Two-thirds of frosh favored abortion rights in 1992; only 55% did so in last year's survey.

...More than one-fifth of last year's freshmen said they never party, twice the percentage of 1987. More kids today say they want a military career, and more hope to be "very well off." We usually think of college students as more liberal than their parents, but on many political issues, today's kids share the views of their parents' generation — and on matters such as affirmative action and taxes, they are actually further right.

...It's important to note the liberal exceptions to this trend: kids are turning left on marijuana and gay marriage. Nearly 40% of first-year students now support legalizing pot (the most since the '70s), and an astonishing 59% of 18-year-olds think same-sex couples should be able to legally wed. (Only about 30% of all Americans do.) But in the context of the other numbers, those positions may indicate a libertarian rather than leftist orientation. The Libertarian Party, which advocates minimal government interference in people's lives, has members on 306 campuses, twice the figure of 1997-98, according to James Lark III, a campus organizer and former party chairman.

...Libertarian ABC journalist John Stossel, who regularly speaks at YAF events, was verbally attacked at Brown University in 1997 after raising questions about the legitimacy of a rape charge one student had leveled against another. "Get off this campus! We don't want you here!" a student yelled at Stossel.

...During black-history month his freshman year, for instance, he brought black libertarian Reggie Jones to campus.

For a political minority like myself, it's great just to see the 'l' word in print so many times from a mainstream publication.  The author considers Reagan the root cause but I honestly think it's far simpler - the Liberals have won the culture wars but Socialism has died for most of the public but's alive and well in the Ivory Tower.   Given all this, where else would a sharp, rebellious mind go?   Perhaps I'm overly idealistic   ;-)