Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Petitioning continues....
With help from our allies with SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy) and FREE (Finding Racial and Economic Equality), we've been petitioning like mad here at CSU, and it won't stop until SAFER's Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative is on the ballot. (By the way, the SAFER campaign has a new blog.)
From last week: Brooke Malcolm, Vice-President of SSDP, manning the table, collecting signatures and voter registrations (see our tally on the sidebar):
If you want to sign up for a shift at the table -- any time between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday -- email us at officers@lpcsu.org. All hands are needed, as we move towards our goal of 2,536 signatures at CSU this semester!
From last week: Brooke Malcolm, Vice-President of SSDP, manning the table, collecting signatures and voter registrations (see our tally on the sidebar):
If you want to sign up for a shift at the table -- any time between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday -- email us at officers@lpcsu.org. All hands are needed, as we move towards our goal of 2,536 signatures at CSU this semester!
Friday, March 24, 2006
Press Release: Student gov't candidates uninformed
Candidates for both tickets to head ASCSU, Colorado State University's student government, misrepresented university policies regarding alcohol and free speech in today's debate on the Lory Student Center plaza.
After a question about SAFER's Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, for which the Libertarian Party at CSU is helping collect petition signatures, Sadie Conrad, vice-presidential candidate on a ticket with Jason Green, stated that she "opposes bringing alcohol back to campus," implying that alcohol was somehow forbidden on CSU grounds.
Yet the debate took place directly in front of the Lory Student Center, where the Ramskeller Pub serves beer to the university community daily. A ban on beer sales at CSU's Hughes stadium was also lifted in 2005, in response to recommendations by a university task force.
The opposing ticket, however, fared no better. In response to a question about the complexity of free-speech rules for student organizations, presidential candidate Jess Dyrdahl noted that "Anyone is free to come and speak on campus whenever they want."
But the university's peaceable assembly policies state otherwise. According to the handbook for student organizations, the "public forum" on the Lory Student Center plaza is only open to groups or individuals affiliated with the university, and then only with reservations secured at least two weeks in advance.
"It's disappointing, but not surprising, that they're misinformed," said Anthony, chair of the Libertarian Party at CSU. "Student government seems to more concerned with not distressing university administrators than with using their power to push for real change. Issues like CSU's drug policy and free speech restrictions affect thousands of students every day. These are issues where student leaders should take a strong stand."
The Libertarian Party and allied groups, including Students for Sensible Drug Policy, will continue to gather petitions for the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative on the Lory plaza for the remainder of the semester. The campus libertarians meet on Thursday evenings at 6 p.m. in the Virginia Dale room of Lory Student Center.
After a question about SAFER's Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, for which the Libertarian Party at CSU is helping collect petition signatures, Sadie Conrad, vice-presidential candidate on a ticket with Jason Green, stated that she "opposes bringing alcohol back to campus," implying that alcohol was somehow forbidden on CSU grounds.
Yet the debate took place directly in front of the Lory Student Center, where the Ramskeller Pub serves beer to the university community daily. A ban on beer sales at CSU's Hughes stadium was also lifted in 2005, in response to recommendations by a university task force.
The opposing ticket, however, fared no better. In response to a question about the complexity of free-speech rules for student organizations, presidential candidate Jess Dyrdahl noted that "Anyone is free to come and speak on campus whenever they want."
But the university's peaceable assembly policies state otherwise. According to the handbook for student organizations, the "public forum" on the Lory Student Center plaza is only open to groups or individuals affiliated with the university, and then only with reservations secured at least two weeks in advance.
"It's disappointing, but not surprising, that they're misinformed," said Anthony, chair of the Libertarian Party at CSU. "Student government seems to more concerned with not distressing university administrators than with using their power to push for real change. Issues like CSU's drug policy and free speech restrictions affect thousands of students every day. These are issues where student leaders should take a strong stand."
The Libertarian Party and allied groups, including Students for Sensible Drug Policy, will continue to gather petitions for the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative on the Lory plaza for the remainder of the semester. The campus libertarians meet on Thursday evenings at 6 p.m. in the Virginia Dale room of Lory Student Center.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Above the fold...
... in today's Collegian:
"But as [Mason] Tvert [campaign coordinator for SAFER] strode into the Lory Student Center's Virginia Dale room Thursday night, he had I-100 - a city ordinance that legalized pot in Denver and made international headlines - under his belt.Read the entire article. Then sign the petition.Not to a mention a room full of about 35 students and community members eager to collect the nearly 68,000 signatures needed to place the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative on November's ballot.
"This is definitely a grassroots effort," Tvert told the pot-legalization troops. "We think this is very possible...The hardest part is getting it on the ballot."
The event was sponsored by the newly formed CSU chapter of the Libertarian Party, which advocates limited government.
"It should be your choice what you put into your body as long as you don't hurt anyone else," said Seth Anthony, chair of the group.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
If you want to post some more of the "make marijuana legal" flyers around campus in areas we didn't get to on Tuesday, the flyer is available for download here (PDF). You can print copies and post them around dorms, on bulletin boards, all over campus, etc. Since we now have a regular meeting room, the information is good for the whole semester.
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