Thanks to everyone who came to our latest College Libertarian meeting! We apologize for sending out our notification email on such short notice, and we promise to be more prompt from now on.
For those of you who missed it, here is a brief recap of the evening’s discussion:
Next week is Students’ Rights Week! Our screening of Indoctrinate U will be on Friday, September 25th. (Room and time TBD, but we’ll let you know by tomorrow.) We will be doing Pit sits and handing out pocket Constitutions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to promote the event. If you want to hang out with some of the other great guys and gals of the College Libertarians, coming to the Pit sits is a great way to do it. To volunteer, just tell us when you are free next week at this site: http://www.doodle.com/98mqihknw5y2m5rp Don’t worry if someone else has already signed up for a time when you are free—the more the merrier! And bring your cameras, too—we need lots of pictures of us at work to promote the group.
Also, since it’s hard to get to know your fellow libertarians at bi-weekly meetings, we will soon be starting optional social meetings on our off weeks. We will be meeting at restaurants on Franklin St to eat, chat and just have some fun. Though optional, we hope to see lots of people join us!
We began planning some ideas for speakers and other events for the semester, and made some lists of our ideas. For everyone who couldn’t attend, feel free to share any other ideas you have with the rest of us. Here are our present thoughts:
Speakers we can almost certainly book:
-BJ Lawson, former candidate for Congress, doctor and entrepreneur
-Mike Munger, chair of Poli Sci at Duke, former Libertarian candidate for NC governor and Kevin’s dad
-Bruce Caldwell, biographer of F. A. Hayek and professor at Duke
-Georg Vanberg, professor of Poli Sci at UNC, UNC-CH CL club advisor
Speakers we want, but we aren’t holding our breath:
-John Stossel, libertarian journalist
-Drew Carey, actor/comedian, libertarian, producer of the Drew Carey Project on Reason.tv
-Vince Vaughn, actor/comedian, libertarian
-Penn Jillette, actor/magician, libertarian, co-host of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime
-Ron Paul, former presidential candidate
-John Allison, former CEO of BB&T, fan of Ayn Rand
Other events:
-Screening of The Fountainhead film
-Screening of a documentary based on the work of economist Hernando de Soto
Some other speakers in the libertarian movement are also interested in meeting with the club members personally to talk to us. We have a lot of exciting opportunities, so be sure to come out and help us realize them.
