Students Rights Week
Anyone who has been through freshman orientation knows what a brainwashing experience it can be. Administrators and counselors spend days lecturing incoming students on what they cannot say on campus, what the campus police are allowed to do at their whim, and the many ways that students are supposed to conform to the university’s will.
We students who believe in liberty, though, think freshmen need to hear the other side of the story. Students need to know that the US Constitution gives them rights that do not end at the entryway to the ivory tower, that freedom of speech is paramount in higher education and there are limits to police power. That is why SFL will be sponsoring the first ever Students Rights Week. We invite all pro-liberty student groups across the country to join us in this important venture to make known what rights students have on campus.
We will provide the materials. You put them in the hands of students at your university by flyering the campus, setting up a table in the public square, bringing in a speaker, and hosting a movie night. Available resources include:
- Pocket Constitutions
- Fliers, sign-up sheets, and other marketing materials
- A DVD of Indoctrinate U for movie night
- Free books and information from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
- A Students Rights Week “How To” guide
- A list of available speakers who specialize in free speech and student rights
Students Rights Week will be the first week of school on every campus, ideally after new student orientation has occurred. Students Rights Week’s motto is “You’ve learned their rules, now learn your rights!” Not only is this a chance to educate your campus about students rights, but it is an opportunity to spread word about your organization and recruit new members.
Click here to download the Students Rights Week Flier!
Click here to download the Students Rights Week How To Guide
If you are interested in joining campuses across the U.S. by hosting a Students Rights Week on your campus, email Clark Ruper at cruper@studentsforliberty.org. Lets show the school administrators, campus police, professors, students, and the world, that we will not let violations of students rights whether via speech codes, illegal search and seizures, or “free speech zones” go unchallenged!
Groups Holding a Students Rights Week
- Arizona State University Students for Liberty
- U Arizona Students For Liberty
- American University Students For Liberty
- Appilachian State Univeristy Young Americans for Liberty
- Blinn College
- Boston University ACLU
- California State University, Sacramento Students for Liberty
- Catholic University Young Americans for Liberty
- Central Washington University Liberty Club
- College Libertarians of Kennesaw State University
- Columbia University Libertarians
- The Drexel Liberty Front
- Edgewood College Republicans
- East Tennessee State University Students of American Liberty
- Emory & Henry College Libertarians
- Florida State University Libertarians
- George Mason University Students For Liberty
- Georgia State University Federalist Society
- Georgetown Students For Liberty
- Grinnell Liberty
- U Kentucky Students For Liberty
- Lourdes College Young Republicans
- Madison Liberty
- Marquette University Young Americans for Liberty
- UMass-Darmouth Libertarians
- Michigan State University Young Americans for Liberty
- U Michigan-Ann Arbor College Libertarians
- U Michigan-Flint College Libertarians
- Missouri University-Columbia College Republicans
- U Nevada-Reno Students For Liberty
- U North Carolina-Chapel Hill Libertarians
- U Northern Colorado College Republicans
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute College Libertarians
- The Plymouth Review
- Rutgers Libertarians
- Seton Hall University Students for Individual Liberty
- St. John’s College-New Mexico Austrian Economics Club
- U Tennessee Young Americans for Liberty
- Washington & Lee University Libertarians
- Wake Forest Young Americans for Liberty
- U Wisconsin-Madison Young Americans for Liberty
Want to join these groups in the fight for your rights? Want to receive free pocket Constitutions, books, and dvds to help you spread the message on campus? Email Clark Ruper at cruper@studentsforliberty.org.
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