B.D. Hysell

Constitution Day at the Kazakh Presidential Palace (...or Severance Hall)

Oct 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM

By B.D. Hysell

For Constitution Day 2011, YAL at Case Western Reserve University set up outside the Kelvin Smith Library and Severance Hall:

Chapter President, foreground; Severance Hall, background

(Severance Hall, home to the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, $50 tickets, and a $60 million "Center for Future Audiences," also had a cameo in the 1997 feature film Air Force One starring Harrison Ford, as the Kazakh Presidential Palace.)

Severance Hall as the Kazakh Presidential Palace in Air Force One

In all, we gave away 133 YAL Pocket Constitutions and a few dozen YAL "Philosophy of Liberty" Palm Cards, and many cheerful wishes of "Happy Constitution Day!" -- which actually elicited quite a few more happy (if occasionally befuddled) responses than we expected.

We hope we did Harrison Ford -- ahem, President James Marshall -- proud.

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Fall semester recruitment at Case Western Reserve University

Oct 3, 2011 at 12:27 PM

By B.D. Hysell

On Saturday, August 27, our chapter participated in the Student Activities Fair along with more than 120 other student organizations (one of which, we're happy to say, is the brand-new campus chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy) at Case Western Reserve University.

With so many other groups vying for attention, of course, with most passersby we had only seconds each, if that. So we whipped out our schwag (and a cheeseburger!):

Chapter President looking presidential, left; chapter Treasurer eating cheeseburger, right

The books (from left to right: End the Fed and The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul; The Empire Has No Clothes by Ivan Eland; and Common Sense Economics by Gwartney, Stroup, Lee, and Ferrarini) were quick attention-getters; they also gave those already familiar with them a quick idea of what we stand for.