Reformer's Blog (February 2012)

CONTEST: Just Capitalism

By Brittney Morrett, on February 29, 2012

Do you want to earn money while promoting free-market capitalism? 

Easy! Create a video following this prompt: 

“Is capitalism just? If not, can it be?” Send Just Capitalism your video response (two minutes or less), and you’ll be in the running for $2,000 in cash prizes!

Go to facebook.com/justcapitalism to see complete entry and contest guidelines.

The University of Washington - Will Their Course Analysis Earn High Marx?

By Adam Weinberg, on February 27, 2012

INTRODUCTION

The University of Washington (UW) is a public research university in Seattle, WA. It is the largest university in the Pacific Northwest and the oldest institution on the West Coast. Any new visitor entering this beautiful urban campus will take notice of the commanding statue of President George Washington, standing guard over the university's plaza.

But after the course analysis we've made, you might wonder whether they shouldn't have turned George around to keep a better eye on what's going on inside the campus itself!

Catholic Universities Trade Faith for Feminism on Valentine's Day

By Michael Armstrong, on February 22, 2012

Every Valentine's Day, colleges and universities across the country share the gospel of radical feminism.  Some offer seminars attacking America's "patriarchal" society.  Others pass out "flowers" made of condoms in order to promote "safe", casual sex.  Many schools host a performance of The Vagina Monologues, a feminist (and sometimes offensive) play by Eve Ensler.

For many, The Vagina Monologues is an over-the-top theatrical glorification of the hook-up culture, feminine "liberation" and physical satisfaction.  "The play... distorts human sexuality by placing sinful activity in a favorable light," said a statement by the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a Catholic advocacy organization

Christians often see the play as a direct attack on their faith.  In one scene, Ensler mocks Christian salvation by portraying the lesbian rape of a teenage girl as her "salvation" from the bonds of heterosexuality.  The play even refers to the girl's experience as, "a kind of Heaven."

Affirmative Action and the Never Ending Left-Wing Crusade for Special Treatment

By Adam Weinberg, on February 21, 2012

With the Supreme Court set to once again hear arguments related to the use of racial preferences for admission to higher education, it's worth noting that this debate did not simply go away since its last time in the SCOTUS spotlight nine years ago at the University of Michigan. 

In California, the other state besides Michigan to pass a voter-approved Civil Rights Initiative prohibiting racial preferences in public education (Proposition 209), the campus left of UC Berkeley has worked tirelessly to grind their axes and raise their numbers on the issue, comparing Proposition 209 to Jim Crow segregation when the measure faced an appeal last week at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In fact, the UC Berkeley student government succeeded in allocating $400 to send a bus of left-wing activists to the San Francisco-based court to protest for the return of race-based preferences for admissions.

True to their spendthrift ways, only 3 people were on the bus when it left the Berkeley campus. The rest of the activists decided to take the city's light rail train...and then "protest" by refusing to pay their fares.

For a group of people who get by dismissing their opponents as selfish, leftists sure seem to engage in a lot of unsustainable, me-first behavior with other people's money.

Providence College Course Analysis

By Timothy Dionisopoulos, on February 21, 2012

Providence College is a Catholic liberal arts school with just under 4,000 undergraduates courses based in Providence, Rhode Island.  The school is administered by the Dominican Order of Friars, and is a Catholic institution.  Providence College focuses primarily upon the liberal arts with a recognized four semester core requirement program in Western Civilization.

GENERAL

School: Providence College, Providence, RI
Population of Students: 3,898 undergraduates, 604 graduate students

Status:  Private (Religious-Catholic)

Cost: 40,975

Former LI Field Rep Becomes Executive Director of MNGOP

By Brittney Morrett, on February 21, 2012

Just a few years ago Benjamin Zierke was a member of the Leadership Institute (LI) Field Representative class of 2007.

Now? He's the Executive Director of the Minnesota GOP

Zierke is originally from Minnesota and attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Upon graduation he completed LI's rigorous Field Representative training and traveled throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota where he organized conservative students on college campuses.

You can launch your political career as a LI Field Representative too

As an LI field rep you would start and grow conservative student groups in your assigned region. You would travel to campuses to identify, recruit, organize, and train conservative students to win battles against the radical left on their campuses.

Become a Leadership Institute Field Representative

By Brittney Morrett, on February 21, 2012

Are you a conservative activist who is about to graduate? Do you want to help students fight leftist abuses on campus? Apply to be a Leadership Institute field representative for the fall 2012 program! 

As an LI field rep you would start and grow conservative student groups in your assigned region. You would travel to campuses to identify, recruit, organize, and train conservative students to win battles against the radical left on their campuses.

Previous field representatives have launched successful careers in fields such as: grassroots activism, political campaigns, public policy, lobbying, Capitol Hill and at conservative non-profit organizations.

The pay is generous.  The experience is priceless.