Anthony Orwick

Codename: Ken I. Seymore

Apr 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM

By Anthony Orwick

The liberty message was alive and well on the University of Kansas’s campus as Young Americans for Liberty students gathered on one of the dreariest days of the season to advocate for our 4^th Amendment rights.

TSA Protest

Despite temperatures remaining around 51 degrees through the late morning and early afternoon under cloudy skies, there was no lack of students willing to be informed about the extremely invasive procedures of the TSA in our nation’s airports. As an organization we handed out plenty of YAL sponsored materials including dozens of constitutions, magazines and little knick-knacks to attract people to our table.

Sign-ups!

We were first greeted by two news reporters before we had even begun setting up! The campus newspaper in addition to the on-campus television station had a great time interviewing fellow students and members of our group. Here is a clip of Tabitha Marcotte, Vice-President and me in a clip by KUJH.

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Preventative War is an Oxymoron

Feb 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM

By Anthony Orwick

The Midwest Peace Summit in Lawrence, KS was a wonderful success! It goes to show what happens when people can work together and bridge important connections with unlikely friends.

Held in a campus ministry/community building, the University of Kansas Chapter of Young Americans for Liberty helped capture the hearts and minds of people from all walks of life. We started preparing our key tabling strategy by offering something that no one else had thought of. A poster of where our taxes go, and bumper stickers that read, "I'm already against the next war." and "End these wars." Everything worked out smoothly and got nearly a dozen people or so to sign up! Not only was it an opportunity to use YAL's tabling materials, it was our largest event thus far, tripling the size of our last largest event. We had 60+ people in attendance!

KU Students Exercise Free Speech for Constitution Week!

Oct 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM

By Anthony Orwick

Free Speech Wall

Many KU jayhawkers came up to KU YAL's free speech board surprised that they could write anything they could think of, many flabbergasted at such a claim! This was all done with support from KU NORML and the members within our group. We strongly encouraged students to support first amendment rights as we spent over 5 hours outside in the beautiful kansas fall weather out in front of Watson Library on campus.

KU YAL Group!

We actively educated students on the extreme restrictions on free speech here on campus. When KU YAL questioned our administration on where "free speech zones" were located, they replied with a succinct: everywhere but three buildings. We believe sincerely that such arbitrary and useless limits on free speech are outrageous, and we were out there to relate it back to Constitution Week. In addition to free speech zones the university severely limits flyering in dorms and restrictions on literature distribution.