Some activists say it was difficult to get students to travel to Washington so soon after last spring's march, which was the largest abortion rights tion rights demonstration ever.

"It was a drain on their time, energy and money," says Nassim P. Assefi, co-coordinator of the Wellesley Women of Choice. To motivate students to attend Sunday's rally, Wellesley activists adopted the slogan "Once is not enough," she says.

And Cornell activist Janette M. Hillis was disappointed that only about 350 of the university's 12,000 undergraduates attended the rally. At Cornell, she says, "People are so uptight about work that they forget about the world out there."

NARAL

Bob Bingaman, national field director for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), says his group hopes to mobilize students who are pro-choice but politically inactive.

"As evidenced by Sunday, we're just barely scratching the potential of students across the country," Bingaman says. He adds that NARAL recently hired a field organizer whose sole responsibility will be recruiting support for the pro-choice movement on college campuses.

Bowman says that college-age women are particularly interested in abortion issues since about 80 percent of the abortions in this country are performed on women aged between 15 and 29.

"People in that age group know women who've had abortions, and this contributes to a different understanding of the issue," Bowman says.

And students themselves say that the mood on America's campuses has changed since the Webster ruling sparked fear that students may lose a right that has existed for them for as long as they can remember.

"People who've never gotten involved, who've never picked up a sign, are getting involved," says Hillis. "For the first time, students feel like their rights are being taken away."