College Libertarians

Thanks to everyone who came to the meeting Wednesday! We had a really good turnout, and I hope we can keep it up. Here’s the recap for those who couldn’t make it.

-We discussed future events we wanted to hold, including a screening of The Power of the Poor with economist Hernando de Soto, inviting BJ Lawson to speak on healthcare and trying to invite John Stossel as a big-name speaker.

-We nominated candidates for office. Candidates are as follows:
Kevin Munger–Treasurer
Ben Beidler–advisor on code and UNC policy
Stephanie Davis– advisor on code and UNC policy
Alex Lopez– Outreach (speech) coordinator, events coordinator
David Deerson — PR coordinator
Tom VanAntwerp — IT coordinator, co-chair

We will be voting and confirming at our next meeting on October 14.

-We are going to screen The Power of the Poor this coming Wednesday, October 7, for all College Libertarians. This is a great new documentary (has not even aired yet!) and all are highly encouraged to attend.

I also met with our adviser, Georg Vanberg, today. He is going to help us arrange co-sponsorship for The Power of the Poor screening with the Global Education Center and Kenan-Flagler Business School. He also had some good ideas for events which I’ll share at the next meeting.

I look forward to seeing everyone at our private screening next week. BYOP (bring your own popcorn).

P.S., For those who have RSVPed to events but are not attending, we would love to know if you are having schedule conflicts that we might be able to work around. We don’t want to leave anyone out if we can help it. Get in touch through email or on facebook and let us know how we can help you to be more involved.

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.