Petition to End the Wars Month: Central Florida

University of Washington Petitions to End the Wars

It's the start of a new quarter at the University of Washington and with that comes the ever-important recruitment tabling. To go along with the End the War theme for March, we created a memorial to honor the hundreds of fallen soldiers who were from Washington State and/or stationed here.

In an interesting twist, our usual "conservative" supporters passed us by, and the students who always run up to yell, argue, and defend Obama signed our petition. Many expressed their outrage over a Democrat-controlled government failing to show a change in foreign policy from the Bush Administration. We signed up a dozen new members and none of our materials blew away -- so all in all a good start to another eventful quarter in Seattle! 

Marc Knauss, president of the YAL chapter at UW-Bothell, created this slideshow to honor the Washingtonians listed above.

Re: Making the Campus Paper

Looking for a way to get your school paper to cover a YAL event on campus? With the recent success of MTSU making their campus's paper, Stephen Parvin is able to bestow a little wisdom on just how easy it can be.

For this, all we had to do was call the newspaper the morning of and inform them of the story.  They sent a reporter and a photographer, and the story made the front page of the print edition.

Give it a shot on your campus. You may be pleasantly surprised.

Petition to End the Wars Month: Wichita State

Wichita State held a Petition to End the Wars event this past Wednesday and Thursday.  They were able to interact with a number of students; Wichita State YAL's president, Andrew Cranmer, wrote an account of the event here.

Here are some highlights:

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