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December 2009

Are you ready for 2010?

By Abigail Alger, on December 31, 2009

What you do on your campus is important.

That's why, as you look back on this year's successes, you get ready for the challenges and triumphs that await you in the spring semester.

Without conservative students who stand up for open intellectual inquiry, few colleges would be held accountable for the bias and politicking of their faculty and administration. Without conservative students who stand up for their principles, the left could keep saying it has our generation wholly won over.

We've had big victories this fall, but we all know there's still more to do. Keep reading to find out how you can get ready to do even more in the new year.

Why take action? Because your efforts can bring philosophical balance to campus.

By Bonnie Kristian, on December 31, 2009

Solely because of your political views, you’re wearing a target on your back.Solely because of your political views, you’re wearing a target on your back.

You didn’t ask for it.  But the more effective you are as a conservative or libertarian activist on campus, the bigger and bolder that target becomes.

If your school has a culture of suppression of academic freedom, don't be surprised if you meet strong opposition to your support of liberty.

Ready to win on your campus?

By Abigail Alger, on December 30, 2009

Welcome to the best of campus reformers' activism, fall 2009 edition. While finals are upon us, CampusReform.org will share the most clever, entertaining, and effective activism events of the semester to keep your spirits high and get you ready for next semester. Think you've got a story that qualifies? Send me an email!

What better way to reform your campus than to win a student government election and have the ability to guide SGA policy and oversee how student activity fees are spent?

Students at SUNY Binghamton did just that. The editorial board of the campus paper, The Binghamton Review, attended a Campus Election Workshop this spring. The workshop, a Leadership Institute program, taught them how to run for -- and win -- elections at their school.

And the training certainly paid off.

The Success of Our National Day of Activism

By Abigail Alger, on December 28, 2009

Welcome to the best of campus reformers' activism, fall 2009 edition. While finals are upon us, CampusReform.org will share the most clever, entertaining, and effective activism events of the semester to keep your spirits high and get you ready for next semester. Think you've got a story that qualifies? Send me an email!

Rutgers

November 9 was the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Many colleges didn't mark the date, but more than 40 college groups across the country made sure it was not forgotten.

CampusReform.org and Young Americans for Liberty cosponsored a national day of activism -- and students quickly came on board. The benefits were easy to see: the idea was fun and creative, the message was important, and working as a national team of campus reformers greatly multiplied the effect of each group's efforts.

Why take action? Because YOU can expose abuses of intellectual liberty on campus.

By Bonnie Kristian, on December 28, 2009

Don't be censored on campus. Stand up for intellectual liberty.Most colleges and universities are not what they pretend to be. 

They are not places for inquiring minds to learn in an open market of ideas.  In fact, many house faculties which systematically attack and often exclude ideas and people in favor of true academic freedom -- especially freedom to give fair consideration to conservative and libertarian philosophy.
 
No wonder the college experience turns so many students to the left.

Why take action? Because it gives you the opportunity to work with good, local organizations.

By Bonnie Kristian, on December 23, 2009

Access CampusReform.org's extensive list of good, local organizations willing to help you.CampusReform.org is a large website, as websites go.  Websites can't really be discussed in terms of size, of course, but suffice it to say there's quite a lot of information here.  It might be kind of overwhelming at first.

But one feature no campus activist should miss is the Campus Reform listing of state-based and local conservative and libertarian organizations. 

This list, found here, can be one of your most valuable resources as an effective student activist.

What do young people really think about health care?

By Abigail Alger, on December 22, 2009

Health care is the hot issue this holiday season, so it's time you figure out the truth.

Liberal groups -- and oftentimes the media! -- have told you that young people support the plan for socialized medicine. But they're lying.

A Zogby poll showed voters under 30 are 65 percent against a state takeover of the health care system. They're not afraid to show it, either.

This fall, the Young Conservatives of Texas A&M led students from their school and others in a protest against Obama's plan; over 200 students rallied with a theme of "community service, not community healthcare." And UT's Young Conservative of Texas Chapter hosted a Free Government Health Clinic on campus. Their goal was simple: to show just how bad healthcare will be under a "free" (read: government-paid) system.

The good news? You can join conservative students across the country and get ready to take action now to counter this outrageous deception.

Hopenhagen Socialism Part 1: "Change the System"

By Justin Pulliam, on December 22, 2009

One would think that the agenda for most of the activists at COP 15 (the UN Climate Change Conference) was to “save the planet” from “global warming”.  However, that’s not why tens of thousands gathered to protest on December 12, 2009.  For the leftist activists, COP 15 and the protest was about changing the system (aka ending capitalism).  Climate change is merely an excuse to collapse capitalism and switch to socialists economic systems.

You don’t have to take my word on this…  I’ll let you hear it straight from the lion’s mouth.  This video was taken during the protest in Copenhagen.

Why take action? Because it's a tough job market out there.

By Bonnie Kristian, on December 22, 2009

Good employment can be hard to find.  Activism can help.Unemployment is over 10%, though more inclusive reporting practices put unemployment closer to 20%.

This means that competition for the job you want after graduation will be stiff -- far more still than it would have been had you graduated just a few years ago during the boom. 

Fortunately, that's where activism comes in.

Why take action? So you don't have to wait tables this summer.

By Bonnie Kristian, on December 21, 2009

Get a great summer job through activism.Summer may seem a long way off right now, but it will be here sooner than you think (if not as quickly as you hope)...and then you'll probably need a summer job

Not too thrilled at the prospect of another three months of waiting tables, refolding shirts, or washing dishes?  Activism can get you a much better summer job -- one that will actually relate to your career.

Just as it can help you get a great internship, networking within the conservative and liberty movements can help you get a great summer job.