SRU YAL Spring 2012 Recruitment Drive Results in over 800 New Sign Ups!

The Slippery Rock University Young Americans for Liberty had two goals coming back from Christmas break:  recruitment and increasing our exposure on campus. This was to be accomplished with strategic and aggresive tabling, creative advertising, and high-spirited activism. After three long and hard-fought weeks of recruitment, it's evident YAL @ SRU far exceed our goals.

 Let's go straight to the numbers:

• 7 days of tabling (2 hours each day = 14 hours total!)
• OVER 800 NEW SIGN-UPS!!!
• 10 professional yard signs
• 500 professional, custom YAL pens
• 50 professional flyers
• 4 professional posters
• Crony Capitalism is Phony Capitalism Event
• A great first informational meeting
• One team, one dream! 

Even before classes started, the leadership team planned the biggest, most successful recruitment drive ever. The strategy was simple:  table in difference locations and use creative ways to advertise around campus. YAL @ SRU tabled in many different locations including the Union, Bailey Library, and Boozel Dining Hall. This resulted in over 800 new newsletter recipients, increasing YAL's influence on campus. 

SCSU Recruitment Week... Success!

For recruitment week this semester our chapter at SCSU in Minnesota decided to give Presidents Bush and Obama a little heat.  We wanted to show students how similair the two Presidents are, and did so by comparing their major policy stances right next to each other.  

We tabled in the most frequented building on campus in order to reach more students, and it was a pretty succesful day.  We had 18 students sign up and have managed to add some new members to the group.  

In order to attract students to the table we had a trivia game for them to play.  You had to guess three of the same top campaign contributers to each of their campaigns and you won candy.  Needless to say we gave away a lot of candy that day.  

We were also fotunate enough to be placed next to another student group called Students for a Sensible Drug policy (SSDP).  They were very talkative and we signed up for each other's email lists and made plans to do a future "Know your rights" event in the near future.  One of their members has become a pretty consistent attendee of our meetings.  

Saint Cloud State's YAL chapter is off to an excellent start!

YAL@VU: Spring Kick-off Events

On January 16th, YAL@VU held its first event of the semester, a teach-in focusing on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its provisions for indefinite military detention of terrorist suspects, combined with a presidential debate watching party. We had one of our largest ever turn-outs, with close to 50 people in attendance during the 3 hours. As part of our spring recruitment drive, we also added 16 new emails to our mailing list. Two local TV stations, WSMV and WKRN, came to report on the event. Our teach-in was led by John M. Drake:

John Drake was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1968. He earned his baccalaureate degree in computer science from UAB in 1991. He then completed a Masters in computer science. In 1998, Drake relocated with his wife to Nashville so that she could pursue research at Vanderbilt. A friend whom he was helping prepare for the LSAT suggested that he sit for the exam as well. He attended Vanderbilt University Law School and graduated in 2011. He currently works in the Nashville area, where he lives with his wife, Dr. Wonder Drake, and their twin sons, Cameron and Miles.

UCCS Recruitment Drive

Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs has been hard at work. 

Starting out for the first time as a registered club on our campus at the club fair in August 2011, we found 55 people who scored libertarian on the worlds smallest poltical quiz that opted to sign up for our email list.  Then, with the help of our new activists we found 100 more people in the month of September, 80 on a Wednesday and 20 on a Thursday, who scored libertarian and signed up for our email list.  This was a huge success, especially considering the small size and commuter campus (very small number of students living on campus) nature of our campus!

An excellent film festival has been scheduled and fundedraised for this weekend by our vice president and SFL campus coordinator Todd Hollenbeck with a substantial ammount of promotion within local liberty groups.  A free speech wall is working its way through the school event processing and 2 local speakers have already made appearences at the weekly group meetings.  Altogether we are off to a great start and look forward to more involvment by Colorado Springs and UCCS residents who are for liberty!