Congratulations to the Winners of YAL's Spring 2011 Recruitment Drive Contest!

Thank you to all the chapters who participated in YAL's Recruitment Contest for this semester (view the contest details here)!  We really appreciate your dedication to spreading the liberty message even in the middle of winter, when recruitment isn't exactly the most appealing activity.  And the winners are:

1. Clayton State -- YAL at Clayton will receive a $300 activism grant, 5 free YAL t-shirts!  You can read their activism report here.
2. UC-San Diego -- YAL at UCSD will receive a $200 activism grant, 5 free YAL t-shirts!  You can read their activism report here.
3. Cal State-Fullerton -- YAL at CSUF will receive a $100 activism grant, 5 free YAL t-shirts!  You can read their activism reports here and here.

Honorable mention also goes to Auburn University, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, and the University of Central Florida.

Thank you again for participating in the recruitment drive!  Now let's "Visualize the Debt."

Up and Coming YAL Chapter: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

This report from Corey Adkison, president of the enthusiastic new YAL chapter at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.  It's awesome to see this chapter so active, especially when compared to those on campuses of greater than 20,000 students.  Way to set the bar high!

Check out their group here.

This past Thursday our chapter had a bake sale displaying the problems with overregulation and taxation on American businesses. We created a price menu for “American made” cookies and “foreign” imports, we priced the domestic cookies at $1.50 per bag while foreign imports were $0.50 a bag.

When people came up and asked what the difference between the cookies were, we showed them a price guide showing the impact sin taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, and the price of regulations had on our “domestic” cookies. We ended up making sixty-one dollars from the bake sale.

We also had an Operation Politically Homeless chart and had about forty-five people take the quiz.  Overall the scores were scattered, but we had about ten people score in the libertarian section, and about four more in the liberal or conservative borderline.

We collected about thirty emails for our email list and handed out twenty or so copies of Young American Revolution. This event brought five new members to our meeting later that evening, and we spoke with fifty to sixty people in total.  With school enrollment just around 1,000, I think it went a long way towards getting our name out to the school population.

CSUF Young Americans for Liberty Running Operation Politically Homeless

From Susan Carnet:

Last week while tabling, California State University-Fullerton Young Americans for Liberty ran Operation Politically Homeless for the first time after receiving our kit in the mail. Check out our video below:

Recruitment for YAL @ AU

In our recruiting efforts at YAL @ Auburn University, we decided to bring out our shining star...or something like that. Actually, the national debt is a rather sad thing, but you get the picture. Our 48' long display always gets the attention of other students and never fails to start a conversation or so. 

We brought in some new members and were able to reconnect with a few of our others. One of our new members, along with 5 others, made the 14-hour journey to CPAC to help promote liberty and send a message regarding the 2012 presidential election! 

YAL National, thank you for the activism kit! We look forward to using it to promote YAL, free markets, and liberty!