evidence: Few college students list the conflict in the Middle East as one of the top three issues most important to them, in a new survey released Tuesday. [...] The conflict in the Middle East ranked last, with only 13 percent of college students ranking the issue in their top three. Two other issues followed closely behind, garnering little support among college students: national security/terrorism (15 percent) and immigration policies (21 percent). The other six issues were each included in the top three of more than 30 percent of the students surveyed: health-care reform (40 percent), education funding and access (38 percent), economic fairness and opportunity (37 percent), racial justice and civil rights (36 percent), climate change (35 percent) and gun control/safety (32 percent).