Where are they now?

Ted Ritsick -- Holy Redeemer High School
http://citizensvoice.com/arts_living/youth_involvement
Was nominated to serve as junior council with his local government -- only 1 is selected each year. 
 
Ross Phar -- Case Western Reserve University
 
"We recruited about 13 new active members who show up at all our meetings at the student activities fair and other tabling events, and now have upwards of 95 subscribers to our weekly newsletter.

We've also begun to make some friends in Student Government, and actually got some money out of them this year ($350+).

We plaster the campus every week with a new libertarian poster that gets us tons of feedback from classmates. It's clear that we're shattering myths about our ideology left and right and having an effect on the political climate of the university.

We copied Wake Forest's water bottle idea and used it for our constitution day event, which was an enormous success - we doubled our newsletter subscribers.

We're also co-affiliated with Students for Liberty.

We're hosting a "Case Town Hall Forum" in November where we will invite groups from all across the political spectrum to discuss the state of the Republic. The program will be aired on local TV.

More events to come in the upcoming semester.

None of this would have happened without the leadership and organizational skills I learned at the convention this summer. Thanks so much for the training - it's truly been invaluable. "
 
WEBSITE:   www.cwruliberty.org
 
Jonny Weaver -- Western Washington U
 
Just before I attended the Leadership Institute in Washington D.C. this summer, I moved from Austin, Texas to Bellingham, Washington. Within three weeks of moving to Bellingham I made enough liberty-minded contacts and friends to host a networking BBQ. I found many smart individuals here, but a lack of action-oriented leadership. My goal was to band this core group together, engage individual strengths and to create an efficient, action-focused group.

I contacted you in hopes of helping the Leadership Institute’s Field Representative for the Northwest area create YAL chapters. Thanks for the help! Since I do not have residency in Washington I am not a current student, but that was not going to stop me from finding a way to create a chapter in this extremely liberal city.

I was led to the Northwest Field Representative, Jason Thomas and contacted him regularly until the Western Washington University (WWU) orientation fair date was set. The second day of the fair he was able to attend and hold a table with us. Jason was skeptical that we could be successful because WWU is like the Berkley of Washington state. He even said, “They told me this couldn’t be done here.” I heard the same from many of the liberty activists I had already met here. I was determined that was not going to stop us.

We got four students to sign up that day. With the assistance and backing of the Leadership Institute and YAL we were able to motivate the WWU students to start a YAL chapter. Our WWU YAL student group is steadily growing. We are accessing the most effective way to promote limited government and individual liberty at the most liberal campus in the state. We are currently setting a variety of action goals and are very excited about supporting the possibility of having Ron Paul speak in Seattle.
Clearly I have created a credible presence as a young, liberty-minded role-model (one of my LI convention goals) and action-oriented leader for these students. This is an accomplishment I am proud of and will use to build support for liberty in many more venues.
 
 
Alexander Habighorst -- Mississippi State University
 
Here at Mississippi State University, we have done numerous things to start off the year. We passed out over 300 constitutions on Constitution day, we have tabled twice before that as well to get more members. We average about 30-50 per meeting and we have grown far larger than the College Democrats and I do believe the College Republicans as well. We also fielded over six candidates in the Campus elections, however only one was elected. We are also about to do a showing of the movie "For Liberty" on campus.
 
Jacqueline Silseth -- St. Could University

Well since the convention, my YAL chapter has magically grown in size by roughly 100%, so that has been really fun. I think having more convenient meeting times has contributed a lot to that though.
As you know, I'm Volunteer Coordinating for Year of Youth, which has been taking up an immense amount of my time. I was also appointed Chair of Legislative Affairs in my student government, and because of it I have been stepping away from the Libertarians Club and YAL more. There has also been a Student for Sensible Drug Policy started by some of our members on campus this year, and the different people who are attracted to the three liberty-minded groups has been amazing to see- interesting reflection of how the movement really needs multiple sides to attract different demographics.
Through the different people and different groups (although there are five of us involved in all three) we have established a pretty solid liberty network- ranging from graphics people to people at the radio station to our campus newspaper. While we haven't been as activist-y, we have been strengthening the infrastructure of our freedom fight from the inside, which will be invaluable for future generations after myself and the others graduate.

Nathan Murphy -- Purdue University
 
Here at Purdue I have worked with the Leadership Institute to bring a YLS to Purdue on Oct 10-11. There were roughly 40 people in attendance. The whole conference ran pretty smoothly and at least four YAL chapters had members in attendance.

Purdue YAL has been hosting a series of Freedom Forums. Our first was on Constitution Day, and the second was October 21st, the next is November 12. These Forums are based on defining what freedom is, how much we really have in America, and what we can do about these Freedoms. These Forums will continue monthly and are based in getting the campus to start talking about things that are meaningful and relevant to our everyday lives.