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By Ryan Gilroy at 10:27AM

Aug 25, 2011

Updating an Old Classic

If you've never taken the Youth Leadership School from the Leadership Institute, you're truly missing out. It's an easy way to maximize your effectiveness as a student activist.

One of the techniques the YLS teaches is especially applicable for those heading to a Division I campus this fall: Operation Pigskin. The idea is that you create a flyer for whatever sport is most popular at your school (usually football) with a roster and season schedule on one side and information about your YAL chapter in general or an upcoming activism event on the reverse side. Hand out the flyers to fans who will happily take it to learn about their team -- and then also learn something about liberty. Use school colors to make the flyer more appealing to fans, and make sure to hand it to people with the roster/schedule side up.

I've attached a basic template to give you an idea of how to make your flyer. Good luck!

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By Jackie Silseth at 6:14AM

Mar 26, 2010

St. Cloud Chapter Hosts Successful Anti-War Event!

On Wednesday the St. Cloud State University YAL chapter hosted an event to petition against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan barely twelve hours after making an appearance at the College Republicans' event "Why Am I Conservative?" making an effort to outeach to both the fiscal and social conservative movements.

While the anti-war protest was politicized by some less classically-liberal students and the administration tried to shut us down, claiming that we had not followed procedure to secure our location, they eventually admitted that they had a reservation for the group. "Student groups aren't allowed to post things to the building," said a man from the programming office, "But those cement walls over there are fine."

Despite the red tape and some student-group politics, our chapter managed to collect more than 250 signatures in support of H.R. 248 - to present to our Representative, Michele Bachmann - while increasing our group size 50% in a single day.

The Crew Setting Up at Locale #1