College Republicans tackle wrong issues

Northernstar of Northern Illinois University ^ | March 2, 2006 | Paul Lalonde

[southernnorthcarolina]

He was a lawstudent, he represented himself, but that's all he ever seemed interested in.

Damn, what a surprise.

[Jumper]

The Young Republicans can take heart from the SCOTUS & Roberts decision allowing Military Recruiters the same access on campus (law schools too - hehe) and know that their time of being discriminated against has run it's course.

A Roberts SC is going to transcend politics with legal decisions that will literally destroy the liberal gains since the 1970s!

[southernnorthcarolina]

I read a couple of years ago in the WSJ, that Vanderbilt is really going all out to import some smart students via monetary incentives, big ones. Can a smart intellectual Yankee Jew find happiness at Vanderbilt? That was in part what the article was about. It seemed to be a bit of heavy lifting.

I never saw that article, but I don't doubt it. It's been more than a few years since I was a student there. Vandy has always been "more Southern" than, say, Dook, but it has always attracted a substantial number of students from Northern states -- more likely to be from the Midwest (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana) than from the Northeast (Dook seems to draw heavily from New York, Connecticut, New Jersey).

Its student body, then and now, skews toward preppy and rich, but there was/is a fair amount of diversity. More Oriental students than blacks when I was there. No idea what the Jewish percentage was -- not a lot, but enough to support one frat and one sorority which were each supposedly Jewish. Intellectuals? Sure, there were some. I avoided them. :-)

[Thunder90]

Many CR clubs won't even go as far as inviting big name conservative speakers to campus. They want to stay on the down low. I think this is for two reasons...

1. Many CR's have political goals/jobs in mind, and the ones who don't are just too busy with everything else

2. The threat of the group losing sponsorship on campus if the club does anything too rash. (Ex-Disbandment by the university for conservative activism, harassment of group members (everything from verbal threats to lower/failing grades on papers, and harassment by University officials in general). Therefore, they don't want to generate controversy or invite big name speakers to campus.

[Thunder90]

The UW madison CR club stands out, but I still think that they put way too much time into political campagins. This is because the University nearly took away their registered student org status over some sort of direct activism tactic, something that leftists do all the time but don't get into trouble for.

[CheyennePress]

Translaton: we want to make Vandy look like every other top 20 university. No unique southerness to the place should survive. Let's import Jersetyites and turn into the friendly place that is my alma mater, Emory. (*pukes*) Just fill it to the brim with kids who really wanted to go to Dartmouth or Cornell but settled because they didn't make the cut. That would be the worst thing that Vandy could do.

Sorry, the attitude of Vandy's president is really off-putting in my eyes. He also saw Jews as a means of elevating their average SAT scores.

[ziggygrey]

Well, a movement doesn't happen by itself. Obviously, the young Repubs at NIU are not motivated/repulsed enough to get politically involved. Being a temp service for political candidates may be boot camp for the grunts. Taking the initiative on campus issues is the "officers training school" for tomorrow's leaders.