Name suggestions for a new club at Keene State College:

[Russell Kanning]

Until you start your meetings, you can basically take over ours if you want. We don't have any rules.

[earthhaven]

Until you start your meetings, you can basically take over ours if you want. We don't have any rules.

We've sort of been doing that, good to have you back Russell 

[Tom Sawyer]

 

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[earthhaven]

Thanks for posting the photo.

Our first meeting is tomorrow, Monday Sep. 11, at 7:30pm in Room 307 of the Student Center.

Free Pizza 

[Tom Sawyer]

Thanks for posting the photo.

Our first meeting is tomorrow, Monday Sep. 11, at 7:30pm in Room 307 of the Student Center.

Free Pizza 

Very

[Russell Kanning]

I should stop by and deliver papers to the students center.

[Soundwave]

I went back to work today and started to mention the group to some fellow workers who were, of course, students. They seemed to like what the club was about.

[fourthgeek]

Because we seem to have a high level of incompetence amongst the libertarians at my school, I had to take the initiative to set everything up on my own, having no idea how to do it since I'm a freshman. We're just "Campus Libertarians", but specifically nonpartisan.

Next step is utilizing my propaganda skills to make some posters, fliers, and signs.

[Coconut]

First meeting was held. A little video was taken. We talked about the local TV show that will soon be started in the form of round table discussion. Went over the on-going backpack demonstrations; trying to teach students their rights to refuse a search. Thanks Russel for showing up in support.

[Russell Kanning]

I will stop by many of these meetings ..... I can always snag a piece of pizza.

Just let us know when you guys want to do another backpack evening or when you need to man a table.

[Tom Sawyer]

Sean showed me a DVD of your first show. 

You guys come off as very comfortable on camera. Good job...
Ian did a great job as Technical Director on the switcher.

Congrats on creating this new direction at the center of the revolution... Keene...  Russell said it enough that it is becoming true

Look forward to more shows in the future.

[FTL_Ian]

That was actually their second show.  I was a guest on the first one.  Thanks for the compliment, as I've never run a switcher before.

[Neal Jiutai]

When I arrived at the University of Florida in 2005, I was glad in knowing that there would be a College Libertarians waiting for me... except that turned out not to be the case. Apparently, they had just burnt out. It happens, especially if the founders of an organisation graduate. A fellow freshman libertarian and I realised that if there was going to be a presence on campus, we'd have to do it ourselves.

So in January of this year we launched the Libertarian Activist Network at UF (which we didn't align officially with the LP.) And for a group as young as us, we've come quite a ways. Last month we had Dr. Jim Lark, former Chairman of the Libertarian National Committee, give a speech to UF. And this week we had a public showing of BUSTED, which 75 people showed up for.

My advice:

• Your college will require you to draft a constitution for the group. Once you've done so, throw it out the window. Charisma, dedication, and creativity go much farther than official procedure.


• Don't get mired in the kind of bureaucracy you're supposed to be fighting against. Keep order at your meetings, be productive, but fuck Robert's Rules.


• Differentiate the type of meetings you have. It's counterproductive to invite people new to libertarianism to a meeting in which your officers bicker about the trivial (yet necessary) details of an upcoming event. They'll feel like they're an audience. A good strategy is to have General meetings (for everyone in order to outline the group's goals for the month, come up with new ideas, answer the questions of new libertarians), Workshop meetings (for those people interested in helping designing t-shirts, creating fliers, planning specific events), and social meetings (because we all need to sound off and bullshit about politics, ideally at a restaurant.)


• Don't try to do everything yourself. There are people in your group just as dedicated as you and who would love to be in charge of something. If you assume all the responsibility of your organisation, you will burn out, and your coursework will suffer.


• Don't be a slave driver either. Yes, you should hold reasonable expectations of a member who commits to doing something, but remember that they've got lives of their own, and that they're doing all of this because they want to.


• Media contacts: have them. I don't care who you have to sleep with. You do want publicity, right? Also, put someone in charge of advertising and being your press secretary.


• Be seen, be heard, cause a scene, and stir up trouble. Don't be afraid. Pull stunts, stage dramatic re-enactments, have flashmob protests, burn your social security cards. What are you waiting for? Go do it!

Best of luck!

[FTL_Ian]

 

[earthhaven]

All very good ideas. We have quite a few people who are interested and come to meetings, but almost everyone who is interested is graduating come spring. We're currently in the process of getting a petition signed so we can be an official club.

Thanks for the help Ian, and of course Sean. I think we'll be able to iron out the show as we do a couple more. Things be good.