Campus-Wide Debate: International Environmental Policy

On Wednesday we are hosting a Campus-Wide Debate on International Environmental Policy with Vanderbilt College Democrats, Vanderbilt Model United Nations, and Vanderbilt Political Review

Campus-Wide Debate: International Environmental Policy

Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: Calhoun 109

Come support our CR debaters!

Pizza and Politics with Carol Swain

The Vanderbilt College Republicans will be having an event this Wednesday, January 27, featuring Vanderbilt Law Professor Carol Swain.
Professor Swain is a nationally recognized expert on immigration, evangelical politics, and race relations; she has appeared on FoxNews, CNN, and countless other news outlets. She is going to be reflecting on the past, present, and future of the Republican party – and it should be a great talk. Of course, we’ll also be serving pizza, so there’s a free meal involved as well. Here are the details:
 
WHAT: Professor Carol Swain on the state of the Republican Party
WHEN: 7 - 8 PM; Wednesday, January 27
WHERE: Calhoun 109
 
Feel free to stick around afterward to watch the State of the Union, but don’t feel obligated to stay.
 
Thanks and hope to see you all there!
 
-Krystle Cluen
President, Vanderbilt College Republicans
krystle.m.cluen@vanderbilt.edu

Join the fastest growing political organization on campus!

Check out our Facebook group and fan page and join us for our meeting with Professor Carol Swain on January 27^th at 7pm in Calhoun 109.

January Meetings

January Meetings
1. Our first meeting of next semester will be Wednesday January 13th at 7pm. Location TBA. In adherence to our new goal of two meetings per month, this will be our members meeting.
Pizza will be provided and we will discuss your goals for the group, upcoming speakers and what we can improve on. This meeting will also be a great way to meet other members and discuss topics in the party.

2. Our second meeting of January will be featuring Professor Carol Swain on January 27th at 7pm in Calhoun 109. In the new few weeks we will provide more details on this meeting. Please pass this event on to your friends!

Dr. Swain is widely recognized as an expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership, and evangelical politics. Her media appearances include BBC Radio, NPR, CNN’s Andersen Cooper, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Fox’s Hannity, PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The Washington Journal, ABC’s Headline News, to name just a few. Her op-eds have appeared in numerous newspapers. These include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, and USA Today. She is also a political blogger for The Huffington Post. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Health Care Reform Debate is December 9th!

The College Republicans and the College Democrats debate Health Care Reform  “Should Congress adopt the Public Health Insurance Option?”
(H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act)  Time: 7:00PM Wednesday, December 9th

Location: Buttrick 101

                         
Moderated by the Vanderbilt Political ReviewHear arguments from both sides of the aisle and listen to debaters answer questions from a VPR moderator

 Hope to see you all there!!

Upcoming meetings and events!

Upcoming events-
 
Tuesday November 24th- “Republican’s Achieving A Majority PAC” will be hosting a Holiday Reception Fundraiser for Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey’s campaign. The Lieutenant Governor and other state senators will be in attendance.
If you are going to be around the Nashville area during break, email Thomsen Smith at gop@thomsensmith.com to volunteer and attend for free.
 
Time: 5pm
Location: FLYTE
Street: 718 Division Street at 8th Avenue
Town: Nashville
 
Saturday December 5h- Tennessee Young Republican Federation Christmas Party Fundraiser
Time: 7pm-11pm
Location: The Home of Jeremy Durham
Street: 5837 Sterling Oaks Drive
City/Town: Brentwood, TN
$20 per person donation requested
*We will be carpooling from campus to this event so if you are interested please email me at krystle.m.cluen@vanderbilt.edu
 
Tuesday December 8th- Healthcare Reform Debate- VCR will be co-sponsoring this event with the Vandy Young Democrats
*Catered by Chipotle*
Time: 7pm
Location: Buttrick 101
 

KICKOFF MEETING!! Wed Nov 18th

Vandy GOP,

I apologize for our previous inactivity this semester. As of Monday, we have had a change over in leadership and I will be the new President of the group for the remainder of the year. Despite our late start, I am confident we will have a successful year and I am looking forward to getting right to work.

Our first general body meeting of the year will be Wednesday November 18th at 7pm in Calhoun 109.

Our guest speaker will be Tennessee Republican State Chairman Chris Devaney. He will be discussing our big wins in VA and NJ, the future of healthcare, and 2010 elections, among other topics.

In addition to this, campaign staff from Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons, Lt Gov. Ron Ramsey, Mayor Bill Haslam, and Congressman Zach Wamp’s team will be speaking about internships and how you can get more involved in the upcoming gubernatorial race!

Also, FREE PIZZA and FREE CR TEE-SHIRTS!!

Come join us next Wednesday for our kickoff meeting!!

-Krystle Cluen

 President, ‘09-’10

An old adage

Sent to me from Prof. Lynskey…..

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
summer away.    Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.    The
grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY:    Be responsible for yourself!

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MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands
to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others
are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table
filled with food.     America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?

Barack Obama appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries
when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green”, and blames it on a right wing philosophy.

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ants’ house where the
news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’   Jesse then has
the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the
ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and call for and retroactive
tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Hillary and Barack go on national television agreeing that the plight of the
grasshopper is the fault of George Bush and “8 years of Republican Administration
neglect”.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the year.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is
confiscated by the government.

Obama’s buddies in the tort lobby gets a campaign contributor / law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges
that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.

The ant of course loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the
ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the
ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it. However his lawyers
will sue both the manfacturer and governement who provided the housing.

The ant has since disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is later found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now
abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once
peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY:   Be very careful how you vote in 2008.

Intern for the Tennessee Republican Party

Beef up your resumé over the summer:
http://ms.tngop.org/new/intern.asp

Dominic posted this on the Facebook group, so I thought I’d advertise it a little bit more.

Nick Alexander
VP of Communications

New Appointed Officers

Hey Vandy CRs,

Please congratulate our two newest officers and members of the Executive Board:

Kylen Grimes - Attorney General
Chelsea Gaw - Executive Assistant

Thanks to everyone who applied and/or ran for an office. I’m looking forward to working with all of you in the upcoming year.

Cameron Norris
President ‘08-’09