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Ohio State University Young Americans for Liberty host Thomas Woods
Posted by Cara on June 05, 2009
The Young Americans for Liberty at Ohio State University hosted Thomas Woods on May 28, 2009. They were able to successfully attracted around 350 people. Not only were they able to attract more than they expected but their membership listed expanded as well.
To advertise for the event, the group handed out bags of chocolate with fliers attached, sent emails, bought an ad on Facebook, and posted fliers all over campus and in every dorm.
Some Colleges Bar Even Talking About Right to Bear Arms, Gun Advocates Say
Posted by Cara on June 04, 2009
Some Colleges Bar Even Talking About Right to Bear Arms, Gun Advocates Say
Thursday, June 04, 2009
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON -- The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right ot free speech. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to possess firearms. Now the first two clauses in the Bill of Rights have come together in an ongoing debate over the right of college students to advocate that they by allowed to carry guns on campus.
The bloody massacres at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School, as well as smaller campus shootings across the country in the last decade, have fomented a lively debate over whether citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons to defend themselves on campus.
But that debate has hit a wall of resistance from school officials in some places, bringing into focus the dual issues of gun rights and free speech.
Many gun-rights advocates are arguing that college campuses, which are supposed to be open to diversity of thought, provocative dialogue, politics and protest, are hardly bastions of free speech when it comes to discussing firearms.
"The fact is, the topic is so explosive," said Robert Shibley, spokesman for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which tracks discriminatory practices against students involved in conservative issues on campus. They've been dealing with "more and more" complaints about efforts to "squelch gun speech," he said.
The latest flareup involves Christine Brashier, who says officials at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) violated her First Amendment right to free speech when they stopped her from posting and distributing fliers advocating for concealed carry on campus, and for a new chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) at the college. The group has about a dozen chapters on other Pennsylvania campuses, Shibley said.
"I genuinely wanted to start discussion on the topic," Brasier told FOXNews.com this week. " I am not such an avid gun owner as much of the news has made me out to be — I simply believe in liberty and that college is the place for a debate about important issues such as this one."
Brashier, 24, who is a freshman at the school, said she worked for the last three years in a law office, and before that, as an assistant manager at a convenience store, which was robbed at gunpoint twice while she worked there.
She is licensed to carry a concealed weapon in Pennsylvania, but school policy prevents her from carrying it on campus. Most states allow schools to set their own policy on concealed carry laws.
Brashier maintains she was hauled into a meeting with the dean, who told her "that the club would never be approved, that the school did not wish to discuss the topic, and to cease speaking about it as well as destroy the literature."
The school acknowledged Monday that it told Brashier to stop leafletting — not because it didn't like what she had to say, but because school policy requires that any "mass distribution" of materials must get clearance from school officials ahead of time. In addition, officials said, her pamphlets implied that Students for Concealed Carry was already a sanctioned student organization on campus.
"Review of posted materials on campus is required precisely to avoid this situation and similar liability concerns, and flyers from other groups have been revised to address these matters before being approved without incident," the official statement read. David Hoovler, a school spokesman, told FOXNews.com that Brashier was a good student and that the incident had nothing to do with the issue of firearms on campus.
"She is welcome to follow the proper procedures, to form the organization and hold their activities," Hoovler said. Regarding Brashier's charges that she was told the SCCC chapter would never be accepted by the school, Hoovler said he could not say with any authority what exactly was said in the meeting, but that Brashier is certainly welcome to form the chapter "if she follows all the proper steps." The student government has the authority for approving campus organizations, he said, and it's all about procedure.
But gun rights advocates are wary. Since the Virginia Tech murders in 2007, in which 32 people were gunned down by a student with a history of mental illness, a line has been drawn between those who feel that licensed gun owners should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus, and those who believe prevention and tougher gun laws are the best response to a campus gunman.
Shibley says both sides deserve to have their say.
"Ever since Virginia Tech ... colleges have become skittish about even talking about guns on campus out of presumably some fear that it would somehow lead to violence," he said.
"That's an unreasonable stand to take. When the issue is whether or not people should carry concealed weapons on campus, there is no more appropriate place to discuss it than on campus."
In March, Central Connecticut State University student John Wahlberg and two classmates gave a presentation for their communications class on whether the death toll at Virginia Tech might have been smaller if faculty and students had been allowed to carry guns. That night, Wahlberg says, he was called into the campus police department, which already had a list of his registered guns, which were locked away off-campus.
Wahlberg's professor had reported him to security out of "safety" concerns, according to The Recorder, the campus newspaper.
The incident has seemingly given the issue a boost, as CCSU students advocating concealed carry were protesting on campus in April, carrying around empty holsters to make their point.
But just a year earlier, students planning a similar protest at Tarrant County College in Texas were told to leave their empty holsters at home and were restricted to demonstrating in a "free speech zone" on campus.
"When university bureaucrats and professors censor student speech or punish students for their ideas, the censors are admitting, in effect, their own inability to address the pros and cons of that idea, and they are attacking everything the university stands for," said Dave Kopel, a policy expert on the Second Amendment for the Independence Institute in Colorado.
But Kopel said the majority of colleges and universities "have handled the debate properly, by not doing anything at all," when a concealed carry movement sparks up on campus. "It's only a minority of abhorrent people who not only have open hostility to the Second Amendment, but to the First Amendment too."
Opponents of concealed carry say there are relatively few students who are behind the movement. "What we're hearing is that they do not want guns on campus," said Chad Ramsey, spokesman for the Brady Campaign, a gun control advocate in Washington. "There is a smattering of Second Amendment activists out there. But I don't think there is a major grassroots effort among students — I think most students have been advocating the other side of the fence."
Certainly, campus officials and campus law enforcement are against the idea of more guns in private citizens' hands at school. Lisa Sprague, president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, said the group put out a position statement after the Virginia Tech incident against concealed carry on campus. They say there is "no credible evidence to suggest that the presence of students carrying concealed weapons would reduce violence on our college campuses," and could even serve to create more dangerous situations.
"Actually, what I've found is just a pocket of interest for this across the United States," Sprague told FOXNews.com.
Kopel responded that it was no surprise that campus police would underplay the importance of the debate and come out strongly against concealed carry. "As far as they're concerned, nobody is ever capable of owning a gun for self-defense unless they're an employee for a security operation," he said.
There has been a flurry of bills at the state level since 2007 advocating that people who are licensed to carry concealed firearms be permitted to carry their weapons on state campuses, but so far no major legislation has been signed into law. A bill passed the Texas state senate in May, but it died when the legislative session expired for the year on Monday. There are bills pending in seven other states, according to the SCCC website.
"This is an issue," said Kopel, pointing out that SCCC has chapters all over the country. "This is not going away."
'Young Conservative Anthem' Causes Internet Buzz
Posted by Cara on June 02, 2009
'Young Conservative Anthem' Causes Internet Buzz A viral video on conservative values, produced by two college students, is a hit on YouTube.
By Tatiana Cooke Uwire Monday, June 01, 2009
An Internet rap video that claims to reflect true conservative values is quickly becoming a cult success.
"The Young Con Anthem," created by two Dartmouth students, has received more than 115,000 views and has been featured on The Huffington Post, USA Today and a variety of blogs across the political spectrum.
Students David Rufful and Josh Riddle made a rap video that they say was intended to spread the views of the Young Conservatives, a group started by Rufful and Riddle with "a devout mission to spread the love and logic surrounding true conservatism," according the organization's Web site.
Rufful and Riddle, both due to graduate in 2012, came to Dartmouth from the Northfield Mount Hermon School, a private school in Massachusetts.
"We didn't think it would blow up to be this big, but it was kind of a way for us to express a pretty unique view," Riddle said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "We kind of wanted to spread the love that's behind the conservative movement."
In the rap, Rufful and Riddle, who perform under the names Serious C and Stiltz, respectively, discuss the origins of their conservative values, saying: "Three things taught me conservative love / Jesus, Ronald Reagan plus Atlas Shrugged."
"I take the way I want to have relationships and my morals from the Bible and Jesus, the idea of supply side economics from Ronald Reagan and from Atlas Shrugged, "Riddle said in an interview, "obviously, I don't agree with all of [Ayn Rand's] religious philosophies, but it's all about the power of the individual."
Riddle said his views are "more valid" because of the diverse influences that contribute to his conservatism.
The video was meant to start a dialogue about politics, Riddle said, not to offend any group. At one point in song the lyrics say: "Don't matter if you're gay, straight, Christian, Muslim / There's one thing we all hate, it's called socialism."
"I just hope that people understand that in no way are we trying to hate on anybody," Riddle said.
The online response to the video, which currently has a 1.5 out of five rating on YouTube, has varied. One commenter on the conservative blog Hot Air expressed approval for "the message, the messengers and the media."
A commenter on YouTube, however, disagreed.
"And this folks ... is why we become Democrats," the commenter wrote.
Rufful said that there has been "hateful commentary" in response to the video, particularly from liberal bloggers.
"There's been death threats -- waking up to a video of a guy with a skull, that's not really what we were looking for," he said, referring to the YouTube video response from a user named NikolaiRaged.
Scott Johnson, a contributor to the conservative blog Power Line, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1973, praised the video in an interview with The Dartmouth.
"I thought it was heartening to see some very bright young people who have thought about the issues and are reacting to current events trying to communicate in a way that is contemporary and good humored," Johnson said.
Power Line posted the "Young Con Anthem" video on its web site Saturday.
"I certainly appreciated what they had to say, and I couldn't believe how funny it was and how biting it was," Johnson said. "I was just laughing about it all day."
Both Harrison Davies, president of the College Republicans, and Bret Vallacher, president of the College Democrats, said they had not heard about the video until they were asked to comment by The Dartmouth.
"I have to admit, at first I thought it was funny and actually a Colbert-esque satire," Vallacher said after watching the video. "Yet, as this tirade staggers on, it tragically exposes the completely irreconcilable views of modern day neo-conservatism."
Rufful said he came up with his alias, "Serious C" because he is "seriously Christian and conservative," according to the group's Web site. Riddle, who is 6' 9" tall, was called "Stiltz" by his friends because of his height.
"We don't claim to be rappers. We're not pursuing a rap career," Rufful said when asked if the duo had any plans to create other videos. "Spreading the conservative message is more of our goal."
The YouTube video was shot on Dartmouth's campus in the Rockefeller Center and Occom Commons.
Tatiana Cooke is a reporter for The Dartmouth and a contributor to U-Wire.
ISI Employment Opportunities
Posted by Cara on May 26, 2009
ISI seeks motivated, knowledgeable people to join its staff. For fifty years, ISI has been working to assist American college youth in articulating the principles of a free and virtuous society. Many individuals who participated in ISI's programs or are familiar with its publications have gone on to work for the Institute. While this experience is a valuable asset for any prospective ISI employee, it is not a requirement for employment consideration.
Résumés are accepted for possible consideration in future openings. Materials can be submitted to ISI in one of three ways.
Email:
info@isi.org
(Please include "Position Inquiry" and your name in the subject line of the email.)
Fax:
(302) 652-1760 Attn: Human Resources
Mail:
Human Resources
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
3901 Centerville Road
Wilmington, DE 19807-1938
Leadership Institute's Field Rep Program is Still Accepting Applications
Posted by Sean on May 26, 2009
Get paid, fight the left, launch your exciting political career, and have fun doing it!
Every fall semester the Leadership Institute (LI) sends out a team of motivated, highly trained field representatives. LI field representatives break the left-wing monopoly at colleges by helping student activists start conservative organizations on their campuses.
The Leadership Institute is still hiring field representatives for the Fall 2009 semester.
Resumé Gold
Your employment as a field representative is resumé gold. Field reps use the training, experience, and connections from LI’s National Field Program to launch rewarding careers in fields such as:
• Grassroots activism
• Political campaigns
• Public policy
• Capitol Hill staff
• Lobbying
• Conservative non-profit organizations
Get Paid
Field representatives receive $2,000 per month salary and $2,000 per month stipend for expenses such as lodging, food, cell phone use, gas, and more.
In August, LI will arrange your travel to the Institute’s Arlington, VA, headquarters for 10 days of intense training. Training expenses (flights, lodging, and meals) are 100% covered by LI.
This may be the most exciting opportunity you’ll ever have, and openings go FAST. Over 1,200 inquiries were made into the program last year.
For more information contact LI’s National Field Director Bryan Bernys at bryan.bernys@limail.us or 1-800-827-LEAD.
Notre Dame Response to Obama
Posted by Sean on May 20, 2009
When a group of Notre Dame students found out that President Obama was going to receive an honorary degree from their university, they decided to gather a coalition of groups-including the Leadership Institute's trained and affiliated ND Right to Life, Jus Vitae, and The Irish Rover-into ND Response. This coalition of pro-life and conservative groups prepared events to put on during commencement weekend. During the rally and Vigil for Life, LI researched and designed fliers were distributed to the hundreds of people in attendance.
How They Won
Posted by Sean on May 19, 2009
Last week, we posted a blog about two LI affiliated student groups winning HLA's and SFLA's 2009 Campus Impact Award. Here is an update on what each group did in order to receive the award.
The first place winner, Purdue Students for Life, is an LI affiliated student group. The group raised the money to pay for 17,500 copies of the pamphlet We Know Better Now into the daily student newspaper The Exponent. The insert sparked quite the controversy on campus, with angry students sending letters to the editor to The Exponent. There was also positive feedback as one pleased student wrote HLA a warm hearted response saying "THANK YOU! Today, March 11, a copy of your magazine was placed inside of every student newspaper, the Exponent, at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. I don't know who organized this or how any of it came about, I just saw it today and my heart was overflowing!"
The second place winner was the University of New Mexico's Students for Life group. The group used HLA's Campus Impact Program to recruit and to distribute copies of We Know Better Now and Imposed Death. The event was wildly successful and resulted in a 70% increase in group membership and a move to a larger venue to hold meetings.
The third place winner, Carnegie Mellon University's Respect Life Club, is also an LI affiliated student group. The group took a famous campus landmark, known as "The Fence", and painted it with messages like "Are you on the fence about abortion?" and other information to draw attention to abortion. "The Fence" is a landmark that has been painted on for years. In order to paint on it, a group needs to follow certain rules. One of the rules is that in order to keep "The Fence" at least 2 group members need to be there at all times. The group sat out by "The Fence" for 4 days and handed out copies of We Know Better Now to raise awareness of the tragedy of abortion.
Congratulations to all three groups for being such great activists! This is the kind of activism the Leadership Institute likes to see!
Two LI Affiliated Pro-Life Groups Win HLA and SFLA 2009 Campus Impact Award
Posted by Cara on May 12, 2009
The Purdue Students for Life won first place ($500) and the Carnegie Mellon Respect Life Club won third place ($250) in this year's Campus Impact Awards, a contest hosted by the Human Life Alliance (HLA) in conjunction with Students for Life of America (SFLA).
The groups that applied for the Campus Impact Award were judged based on the use of HLA materials and the impact they had on campus.
Congratulations to Purdue Students for Life and Carnegie Mellon Respect Life Club on a job well done!
Pro-Life Demonstation Planned at Notre Dame During Obama's Commencement Speech
Posted by Cara on May 06, 2009
Obama is scheduled to give the commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame on May 17. Some of the Leadership Institute's CLP groups are involved in coalition of ND Reponse,a group of Notre Dame student groups banded together in opposition of the pro-abortion Obama's appearance at the Catholic university.
The students' "objection is not a matter of political partisanship, but of President Obama’s hostility to the Catholic Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life at its earliest stages. Further, the University’s decision runs counter to the policy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops against honoring pro-choice politicians. [They will not] sit by idly while the University honors someone who believes that an entire class of human beings is undeserving of the most basic of all legal rights, the right to live."
For more information on ND Response and the events surrounding Obama's commencement speech, check out their website: http://ndresponse.com/
Student Group Defies University and Hosts Tom Tancredo
Posted by Cara on May 05, 2009
Providence College Youth for Western Civilization defied the school administration and hosted Congressman Tom Tancredo on April 29, 2009. The school banned the Congressman from speaking on campus, claiming they disagreed with his views on immigration. However, the private Catholic college has hosted Senator Ted Kennedy and other pro-choice speakers in the past.
The Congressman made a symbolic speech at the gates of Providence College to members of Youth for Western Civilizatoin.
He then traveled to a nearby Veterans of Foreign Wars hall where he addressed both the group and off campus supporters.
The event was made possibly by a grant from the Leadership Institute's ROCK program. By covering all expenses related to the event, the Leadership Institute helped establish Youth for Western Civilization and generated a huge amount of attention and media coverage.
Purdue Denies Conservatives Students' Free Speech
Posted by Cara on May 01, 2009
Conservative student group says Purdue denied free speech, defended ‘radical’ group By Carolyn Shelby, Lafayette Online News
Posted April 22, 2009 (853 views)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -– A Purdue student group is claiming the Dean of Students Office is showing politically motivated, preferential treatment of some student organizations and their right to protest on campus.
The student members of the Conservative Coalition for American Values (CCAV) feel they were denied the right to protest a memorial display constructed by another student group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), but then the members of SJP were permitted to protest and disrupt a CCAV event the following day.
On Wednesday, April 8th, the members of Students for Justice in Palestine erected a memorial on the Engineering Mall consisting of 1,389 black flags to represent the deaths of people in the Gaza conflict. Around the display, they had signs that condemned Israel for the deaths. The event was part of SJP’s mission to “an end to Israel’s system of apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
The signs surrounding the flags contained quotations from various human rights organizations, the UN, news outlets, etc. One sign read: “Israeli forces used white phosphorus and other weapons supplied by the USA to carry out serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes. Their attacks resulted in the death of hundreds of children and other civilians and massive destruction of homes and infrastructure.” - Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International.
CCAV members responded to these messages by carrying an American flag and holding signs around the memorial. CCAV signs reading “Hamas blocked medical aid to Palestinian civilians” and “Hamas uses human shields” were meant to counter what they believe are falsehoods about Israel propagated by a “radical” student group.
Both views of the conflict were represented until the Associate Dean of Students, according to a statement issued by the CCAV, told the Conservative Coalition that they were not allowed to hold signs because they were “disturbing” SJP’s event.
“I was shocked when I was told I couldn’t express my beliefs when I was supporting my own country and our ally, Israel, against people who support Hamas,” said CCAV Finance Director Michael Bagnoli. “I walked away wondering why Students for Justice in Palestine gained favorable treatment from my school and if my rights had been violated.”
The following day (Thursday, April 9th), the Conservative Coalition hosted guest speaker Nonie Darwish, author of “Cruel and Usual Punishment” and “Now They Call me Infidel”, who spoke about the threat of Islamo-fascism and what she believes are the atrocities of Sharia Law. According to the CCAV statement, SJP members disrupted the event with shouting, arguing, and personal character attacks as well as distributing “slanderous information” about Darwish.
The statement goes on to say that protesters at the Darwish event shouted attacks like, “ She has no right to be speaking” and “How much was that necklace? How much was your haircut? I would ask about the suit but it’s pretty nasty.”
CCAV representatives said that while the University administration showed concern over the rights of SJP to hold their event without protesters, the Associate Dean of Students “stood quietly as the students’ behavior escalated out of control.”
After the event, Nonie Darwish said, “I have encountered some of the most radical students at the audience at Purdue who said that I should never be allowed to speak… all they cared about [was] defending the indefensible and denying any kind of violation for human rights done in the name of Islam and Sharia.”
Even after living under Sharia Law for 47 years, Nonie Darwish was shocked that, “Not one [SJP] student said that [he or she] was offended by the stoning of women and by the violations of human rights by both Muslims and non-Muslims who live under Sharia Law. I see the culture of hate and anti-Semitism that I grew up with in the Muslim world moving to U.S. campuses.”
The Dean of Students Office was unavailable for comment at the time of publishing.
U Conn YWC Joins Protest Against Leftist Terrorist Bill Ayers
Posted by Cara on April 29, 2009
If you're a moderate former Congressman like Tom Tancredo who merely advocates securing the border and enforcing the law you are subject to violent protests and bans.
If you're a far-left terrorist like Bill Ayers who advocates setting off bombs however, you are welcomed with open arms to speak at universities across the country as a 'distinguished professor'.
That is the insane 'logic' that dominates our college campuses today.
At the University of Connecticut students decided to form a welcome committee of their own for "Dr." Ayers.
Youth for Western Civilization Makes FOXNews.com
Posted by Cara on April 29, 2009
Right-Wing College Group Riles Students on Campuses Nationwide
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller
A student group that bills itself as "America's right wing youth movement" focused on countering radical multiculturism, socialism and mass immigration is causing a stir on a growing number of college campuses across the country.
The ultra-conservative political group Youth for Western Civilization is currently organized on at least seven university campuses. According to its Web site, the group hopes to inspire Western youth on the "basis of pride in their American and Western heritage," counter and ultimately defeat "leftism on campus" and create a social movement in which a right-wing subculture is an alternative to what it calls a "poisonous and bigoted" campus climate.
"A great part of college is definitely meeting people of different backgrounds, but a multicultural ideology teaches that we should appreciate things just because they're different from our culture with no regards to the quality of the culture and that all cultures are inherently equal," said Trevor Williams, president of YWC's Vanderbilt chapter. "I absolutely disagree."
But students who lean left are not welcoming their new neighbor. Those opposed to YWC say its message teeters on hate speech and has no place at institutions of higher learning.
"'Western' is a veiled term that means 'white,'" University of North Carolina graduate student Tyler Oakley wrote in an e-mail to FOXNews.com. "I believe that our democracy is strong enough to allow extreme forms of speech, but YWC's message is essentially a negative one, an assault on not being white or non-Western, and is therefore hateful, if not blatant hate speech."
While its numbers are small, YWC members hope a well-publicized April 14 event featuring the group's honorary chairman — former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo — at UNC's Chapel Hill campus, will help mobilize conservative students and attract new members.
Tancredo's speech opposing in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants was shut down after a window was smashed and a banner reading "No One Is Illegal" was unfurled across the former Republican lawmaker's face. One UNC student, Helen Elizabeth Koch, was arrested for disorderly conduct in the incident, which was widely distributed on YouTube and is also featured on Youth for Western Civilization's home page.
Officials at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which identifies and tracks hate groups in the U.S., told FOXNews.com that the YWC is not currently on its list, but some of the group's views are "suspect," including the notion that Western civilization is somehow superior.
In February, following YWC's debut at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, SPLC linked the group's founder, Kevin DeAnna, to several posts on the Spartan Spectator, the Web site of Michigan State University's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom.
SPLC identified MSU-YAF as a hate group in 2007; DeAnna vehemently denies posting the material attributed to him.
"We're definitely monitoring them," said SPLC spokewoman Heidi Beirich. "We will look at them for hate group status."
DeAnna, a deputy field director for the Leadership Institute, a conservative education group that paid Tancredo $3,000 for his UNC appearance, said YWC has roughly 10 active members at each of its college chapters. Aside from UNC, DeAnna said YWC has a presence at Vanderbilt University, American University, Elon University, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Connecticut-Storrs and Bentley University.
"It's kind of a loose thing right now," said DeAnna, a 26-year-old graduate student in international relations at American University. "But we're concerned with issues of mass immigration, curriculum, racial preferences and multiculturism on college campuses."
The group will sponsor another speech by Tancredo on Wednesday just off campus from Providence College, where school officials recently denied a request from the still unsanctioned group to host the former congressman, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2008.
Tim Dionisopoulos, president of YWC's unofficial Providence chapter, said Tancredo plans to speak "right in front of the gates" at the 4,000-student university and to head to a Veterans for Foreign War event. Providence officials say YWC has not sought formal recognition as a student group and thus cannot host an event at the Rhode Island college. But Dionisopoulos says the college is hiding behind protocol.
"We've been unfairly targeted," the political science major told FOXNews.com. "The content scares administrators because this is a group that will stand up for what they believe in. I don't think they're opposed to our mission statement, I think they're moreso afraid of what the opposition will do to us and have done to us elsewhere. Eventually, someone's got to come out and say this has got to stop."
Jesse Jones, a freshman at Vanderbilt, where YWC hosted former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan last month, acknowledged the group's right to organize and share its views.
"But their fascist-like logo, their name echoing 'Hitler Youth,' and Tom Tancredo's call of 'this is your country — take it back' all quite frankly scare me," Jones wrote in an e-mail to FOXNews.com.
Jones said he's also disturbed by the group's call to restore a "curriculum that focuses on Western history, not political correctness," according to its Web site.
"They want to change the curriculum to emphasize 'classical learning' and get rid of 'trendy multiculturalism,'" Jones continued. "In practice this means firing professors with the wrong views and hiring those with the 'right' views.
"Even assuming there is a 'right' view on a given issue, the point is to get students to come to this opinion on their own, given the facts. In this way, YWC's views on education are inherently anti-intellectual."
Tancredo, meanwhile, says he'll continue to appear at colleges as an invited guest of YWC. Its mission to "promote the survival of Western civilization and pride in Western heritage" is all about celebration, he says.
"It's got nothing to do with racism, it's got nothing to do with extremism," Tancredo told FOXNews.com. "It has to do with celebrating the benefits Western civilization has brought to mankind, not the least of which is the concept of law. It's designed to bring attention to the issues, discussions and points of view that aren't readily available in the typical classroom on liberal colleges run by left-wing loonies."
Leadership Institute Trained Pro-Life Activist Captures the Media's Attention
Posted by Cara on April 29, 2009
Lila Rose, an LI trained activist, is making it into the news all over the place.
Lila is the President of Live Action, an organization that has been working to expose Planned
Parenthood's (PP) illegal practices. With their Mona Lisa Project, Live Action has been able to expose
multiple PP clinics' "willingness to repeatedly violate mandatory reporting laws for
statutory rape that protect children."
After months of going undercover to get these stories and making FOX News, The LA Times finally picked up the story on April
26, 2009. Read it here.
Here is Lila's appearance on Glen Beck's show on FOX News:
Previously, Live Action exposed PP's willingness to accept racist donations specifically given to abort the unborn children of
African Americans:
The American Dream is still alive
Posted by Cara on April 28, 2009
University of Minnesota Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) hosted Adam Shepard on campus on April 21, 2009.
According to Quinn O'Reilly, the president of UM's CFACT, they "brought Shepard to campus to present the message that the American Dream is still alive and that too many have forgotten that the Dream requires us to work hard to acheive it."
Shepard is the author of Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the search for the American Dream. The book documents Shepard's experience as he set out after college with only $25, a sleeping bag, and the clothes on his back. His goal? To disprove Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch by proving that Americans are still able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and climb above the poverty line.
Those in attendance recieved a free, autographed copy of Scratch Beginnings.
May Activism Idea
Posted by Bryan on April 27, 2009
May Activism Ideas:
Expose Commencement Speakers
The liberal bias on campus is never more prevalent than by whom the university chooses to give the commencement address. Graduation is just around the corner and the Leadership Institute wants to help your conservative group gain attention on campus while educating your peers.
Graduation is supposed to be a time of celebration of student achievements not one final opportunity for leftist indoctrination. Whether you attend a public or a private university, a commencement speaker should celebrate your accomplishments and challenge you for the future.
If your university is like the majority of schools in the country, it is a bastion of liberalism. It is more than likely that your university has invited a leftist commencement speaker to have the honor of addressing your graduating class. There are things that you can do as student activist to protest the continued liberal indoctrination of your peers and enhance your conservative voice on campus. Even on graduation day, it is not too late to make a difference.
Some ideas include but are not limited to:
·Create a post card or flyer to hand out to commencement guests as they arrive at the ceremony. This flyer or post card can expose the extreme views and previous comments of the keynote speaker without a major disruption.
·Get your campus or conservative student paper to write a story exposing the real views and beliefs of your commencement speaker.
·If your campus paper will not cover this story, write a story, editorial, or letter to the editor, and submit it to any papers on campus as well as local papers.
If you happen to be one of the fortunate few who will have an accomplished conservative commencement speaker, you can show your support for the university’s decision to invite them using the same ideas listed above.
If you need assistance with research for this project, do not hesitate to contact the Leadership Institute at 1-800-827-LEAD or CLP@limail.us.
Bryan Bernys Email
Director, National Field Program
Leadership Institute
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Leadership Institute Trained Activist Recognized for Efforts at CSULB
Posted by Cara on April 27, 2009
Congratulations to Jason Aula, conservative activist and leader of the Long Beach Conservative Student Union, an LI affiliated student organization at California State University, Long Beach.
Jason recently received a $2,500 Ronald Reagan Collegiate Leadership Scholarship from The Phillips Foundation which is awarded to "college undergraduates who demonstrate leadership on behalf of the cause of freedom, American values and constitutional principles."
Helpful tips from Wake Forest's Young Americans for Liberty
Posted by Cara on April 27, 2009
Last Tuesday, the Young Americans for Liberty at Wake Forest hosted an extremely successful event with Dr. Ron Paul and BJ Lawson. This weekend they posted a video sharing their secrets to success.
It's good to see the tips and techniques from the Leadership Institute's Youth Leadership Schools and Campus Activism Conferences put into action.
Watch the video for a few quick tips on how to host a successful event on your campus:
UNC Chapel Hill does it again...
Posted by Cara on April 24, 2009
The Youth for Western Civilizatoin chapter at UNC Chapel Hill invited former VA Congressman Virgil Goode to speak on campus on April 22, 2009.
Judging from the crowd before the event, YWC figured the protesting would be fairly peaceful compared to last week's Tancredo event. While the protestors on Wednesday didn't get violent, six of them did end up getting arrested. Their disruptive behaviour throughout Goode's speech led the six protestors (who weren't even students) to be arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.
Is Embryonic Stem Cell Research Morally Justifiable?
Posted by Cara on April 22, 2009
The Intergollegiate Studies Institute is sponsoring an exciting educational debate on the issues surrounding the morality of stem cell research. This debate will take place this Thursday, April 23, 2009, at 7:00 PM in Norton, MA, at Wheaton College in the Cole Memorial Chapel.
Louis Guenin, a Lecturer in Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, will go head to head with Bill Saunders, Director of the Center for Human Life and Bioethics, on whether or not stem cell research is morally justified.
Event: "Is Embryonic Stem Cell Research Morally Justifiable?"
Louis Guenin, Lecturer, Ethics in Science, Harvard Medical School vs Bill Saunders, Director, Center for Human Life and Bioethics Date: Apr 23 2009 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Wheaton College
Cole Memorial Chapel
Norton, MA Description: Cicero's Podium Debate Series
The event is free and open to the public.
Cole Memorial Chapel is Building 4 on campus map. Contact: debates@isi.org
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