Students For Liberty Regional Conference Coming to KSU!
by CLOKSU on Jul.29, 2010, under Events
That’s right, Students For Liberty, the largest (and I think only) international student organization of liberty advocates is having one of their 2010 regional conferences at your very own Kennesaw State University this year. It will be one of 9 Students For Liberty regional conferences happening across the globe during the months of October and November. On October 23, 2010, the College Libertarians of Kennesaw State University will have the honor of hosting the 2010 Students For Liberty Southeastern Regional Conference. It will run from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM. Come and meet like-minded students, listen to and learn from great liberty speakers, and network with people within the liberty movement. Best of all, it’s free!
Benefits include:
• FREE registration
• Hear from top liberty speakers
• Connect with liberty organizations
• FREE books, pamphlets, stickers, and other liberty materials
• Get info about student organizing, hosting events and speakers, internships, jobs, programs, seminars, and conferences for liberty
• 3 FREE meals
• evening social with 2 FREE drinks!
Topics of Lectures and Workshops:
• Communicating Liberty
• Student Activism
• Police And The Justice System
• Winning on Principle
• New Media/Social Networking For Liberty
• The Future of Austrian Economics
• Student Leadership
• Education, Campus Culture, & Free Speech
• Victims of the Drug War
Register for free HERE!
A preview of some of the speakers and their credentials:
Lawrence W. Reed will be the keynote speaker of the conference and will deliver a speech entitled “The Difference One Can Make: Unsung Heroes of History”. He is the president of the Foundation for Economic Education and president emeritus of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He taught economics at Midland’s Northwood University from 1977 to 1984 and chaired the Department of Economics from 1982 to 1984. In the past 20 years, he has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, 200 radio commentaries, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the US and abroad, as well as 5 books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News, and Detroit Free Press, among many others. Reed’s most recent book is Striking the Root: Essays on Liberty. Since 1978, he has delivered more than 1,000 speeches in 40 states and 15 foreign countries, including one at People’s University in Beijing, China. We are honored to have him as our keynote speaker at this conference.
Pete Eyre went to school for law enforcement, eventually concluding that he could have a bigger impact working through other mediums. He is currently an outreach consultant at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His past experiences include interning at the Cato Institute, completing the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellowship Program at the Drug Policy Alliance, serving as the director of the Institute for Humane Studies’ Campus Outreach Program, and filming an almost-real-time documentary in search of liberty across America, the Motorhome Diaries. His newest projects are Liberty on Tour and Cop Block.
Jared Fuller is currently the Southeastern Regional Director to Young Americans for Liberty, the Youth Director for Our America Initiative, was the 2009-2010 Southern Director to Students For Liberty, and has worked on many local, state, and national campaigns to bring about effective changes in the way we perceive the role of government. A New Mexico native, Jared moved to North Carolina to acquire his double-major of political science and philosophy from Wake Forest University. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Year of Youth, an initiative geared toward training and mobilizing youth activists for the 2012 election season, building a network of passionately pro-liberty students and young professionals for elections to come.
Allison Gibbs is the founder and Executive Director of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA). She is also the Director of Outreach for the Campaign for Liberty. She did AIDS and DOD research for about 8 years of her life. She is a published writer, poet, and has spent the last 8 years developing a philosophical theory derived from Plato’s Theory of the Forms.
Jenna Ashley Robinson joined the Pope Center in January 2007. She was previously the E.A. Morris Fellowship Assistant at the John Locke Foundation, where she worked since 2001. Robinson graduated from N.C. State with a degree in Political Science and French in May 2003 and has studied at the University of East Anglia School of American Studies in Norwich, England. She received her master’s degree in Political Science from UNC Chapel Hill in December 2005. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science with a concentration in American politics and a minor in methods. She is also a graduate of the Koch Associates Program sponsored by the Charles G. Koch Foundation.
Dr. Daniel D’Amico finished his Ph.D. in economics at the age of 26 from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. While at George Mason, professor D’Amico received fellowships from The H.B. Earhart Foundation, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, The Mercatus Center and The Institute for Humane Studies. He participated in and conducted original field research with The Mercatus Center to investigate the effects of hurricane Katrina on the gulf coast region. His dissertation, “The Imprisoner’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment,” was awarded the Izrael M. Kirzner award for best dissertation on Austrian Economics. He is currently in the process of seeking publication for several of its constituent parts as well as continuing his ongoing research on the economics of crime and punishment.
Jeff Fulcher joined the Advocates for Self-Government as Program Director in August of 2009. After years of helping college students start freedom-focused newspapers, he is responsible for growing the effectiveness and reach of the Advocates mission. Before coming to the Advocates, Jeff was Director of Publications at the Leadership Institute. He traveled from New England to California empowering a generation of students to stand up for freedom on their campuses. Under his direction the Student Publications Department nearly doubled in size, and grew their programmatic offering to include public speaking, fund-raising, investigative reporting, writing, and design workshops. Jeff has worked with national groups like Citizens Against Government Waste and United Press International to develop and implement marketing strategies. His writing has been published in the American Spectator and the Young American Revolution.
Register for free HERE!
See you there!
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Meeting Minutes for 22 April 2010
by CLOKSU on Apr.22, 2010, under Uncategorized
Meeting started at about 12:10 PM.
Officer elections
~~>President: Ileana Zayas
~~>Vice: Caleb Wallace
~~>Secretary: Ashley Rayborn
~~>Treasurer: Justin Martin
President-appointed positions:
~~>Publicity Director: Zach Varnell
Ileana owns up to her mistakes. She promises to help come up with ideas to make fall semester run more smoothly.
Zach talks about how he linked Amazon.com to the CLOKSU website.
~~>Sets a cookie for 7 days.
~~>When people buy stuff through that link, CLOKSU gets money.
We talk about James Swift’s articles.
We talk about doing demonstrations on campus, like empty-holster protest.
We talk about Westboro Baptist Church.
We talk about PorcFest.
~~>June 24 – 27 in Lancaster, NH
This Saturday is the LP State Convention.
May 6 is Cobb LP meeting
Ileana will do a poll for new meeting time in early August.
~~>Meetings will probably be in the evening.
Meeting ajourned at about 1:05 PM.
Officer Elections Meeting for 2010-2011
by Wootberries on Apr.21, 2010, under Meetings
Date: 22 April 2010
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Social Science Building, Room 3007
Hey, CLOKSU members! It’s the last meeting of the Spring 2010 semester, which means it’s time to elect new officers! If you have attended at least 1 meeting this semester prior to this Thursday, you are eligible to vote.
If you are interested in running for an officer position, please give Ileana your name and which position you are running for. You can write it on the wall for this event, the CLOKSU group wall, Ileana’s profile wall, message her, email her, text her, call her, anything…just let her know! so that she can print out a ballot with your name on it for that position. She will be printing out ballots on Thursday at 11:30 AM, so that is the deadline for deciding to run for something.
The positions available are:
- President: The President shall preside over meetings, appoint members to standing and special committees, and perform such other duties as may be delegated by the Executive Committee or the membership.
- Vice President: The Vice-President shall perform the duties of the President in the absence of the President, and perform such other duties as may be delegated by the Executive Committee or the membership.
- Secretary: The Secretary shall keep minutes of meetings, all organizational records, and correspondence, and perform such other duties as may be delegated by the Executive Committee or the membership.
- Treasurer: The Treasurer shall keep club funds and financial records, make disbursements as directed by the Executive Committee, and perform such other duties as may be delegated by the Executive Committee or the membership.
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We will also discuss plans and goals for next semester.
Support CLOKSU With Your Amazon.com Purchases!
by CLOKSU on Apr.20, 2010, under Uncategorized
Now you can support the College Libertarians of Kennesaw State University just by shopping at Amazon.com through the CLOKSU Amazon link!
It does not cost you any extra money. Just make your purchases on things you were going to buy anyway through the link, and CLOKSU will get a percentage of each purchase made. You can even replace your current Amazon.com bookmark with the CLOKSU Amazon link so that you won’t even have to think about it each time you shop on Amazon.com.
Every dollar made will go toward advancing liberty.
CLOKSU Has A Website!
by CLOKSU on Apr.13, 2010, under News
Welcome to the official website for College Libertarians of Kennesaw State University!