Editor's note: Jake Dagel is a freshman at Laramie County Community College and the President of the LCCC Campus Conservatives. He can be reached at jakedagel@gmail.com. Contact your Regional Field Coordinator to learn how you can host an activism event and gain earned media for your conservative cause.  Click here to view upcoming Leadership Institute training.

The LCCC Campus Conservatives received notice from both their college and the community when they held an Affirmative Action Bake Sale on their campus. 

When starting a new club on campus, it can be intimidating to start it all on your own. Ambitious undertakings all have humble beginnings, so you need to think about how to grow from one or two principled students to a conservative force on campus. Tabling is important; fliers are important; events and activism are important. But, if you are the only member in your new group, how do you find the manpower to help you recruit? Make friends.

On Wednesday, February 1^st the Campus Conservatives from Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Cheyenne, WY hung up a poster around their campus to recruit members. The poster had a cartoonish image of Obama and one of his quotes, "I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." Little did the Campus Conservatives know, the poster would cause a large controversy on their campus.

Roughly a year after the campus of the University of Wyoming was plunged into controversy over an invitation to leftist-terrorist  Bill Ayers to speak, a conservative icon is being brought to campus. 

Ann Coulter is coming to speak at Wyoming on March 31, 2011 in a speech that will be much less controversial then the Ayers saga of 2010:

When Bill Ayers came and spoke at UW it was an extremely controversial topic.At the time  I had only heard rumors of who Mr. Ayers was. I researched that night after we found out the news about the court deciding to let him speak. I found that he was a self proclaimed domestic terrorist during the 1960's and led a violent liberal militant group. This astonished me that this man wasn't locked up so many years ago. What astonished me more was that he was able to speak at our school.

Although his topic (education reform) was not the most controversial subject in the world; I still felt the need to let my views be heard. So a friend -  Tim Hawkins - and I organized a small group of our friends to protest his presence on our campus. We had made signs and planned not to speak to any of the people coming into the venue unless they had questions or wanted more information about who we were. We were shocked when we arrived to the venue that other conservative students had also showed up organized also to protest. We stood silent while students not affiliated with our group stood and bantered patrons of the venue while they walked to the front doors.

John Adams, second President of the US, once said “Facts are stubborn things.”

William Ayers’s recent invited and later cancelled appearance on UW campus sparked a heated debate.  Everyone raised some great points, primarily on freedom of speech, and past actions of Mr. Ayers.  Now the purpose of my status updates and notes is to choose a side, and debate it from both sides of an issue while keeping it in context.

Freedom of speech is a blessing and a curse, but one of our most important rights as Americans.  It appears in the 1st and 14th amendments of the Constitution. The 1st amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  Government shall not infringe on the right of freedom of speech in a nutshell.

These are just some images from the Ayers speech at the University of Wyoming

The Young Constitutionalists of Wyoming are an active, model conservative student group. Winners of the $1000 Leadership Institute Constitution Day prize, the group is constantly tabeling for new members, holding meetings and inviting speakers to campus in hopes of creating stimulating discussion and debate about important topics and the constitutionality of the subject at hand.

Led by group president Eli Cox, the group invited Dr. Sven Larson to discuss the recently passed health care bill and what it will mean to the economy of not only Wyoming, but the United States in general.

Today the University of Wyoming let Mr. Bill Ayers on the campus to speak. Well the University was forced more than anything, in possibly one of the fastest lawsuits ever.