Politics Club

The Politics Club is a student led group and members are from various majors. The faculty advisers are from the Politics and Government program.  We are a non-partisan club that aims to provide students with the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialog and discussion about relevant political topics while also having fun doing it.  Everyone is welcome!

What are we doing this semester (Fall 2011)?

• Constitution Day Speaker (Sept 15th) with Dr. Ronald Den Otter
  
• Sponsoring campus wide brown-bag series on various topics

1. October 11th: 'What is natural food?" 
2. October 25th: "Fresh" movie and potluck
   
3. November 8th: TBA
   

• November movie night: TBA
  
• Halloween bake sale (Oct 31st in College Center) proceeds going to Partners in Gunnison.  
  

Past events

• 2010 Lowdenslager Lecture (10/28/10).  Dr. Erik Fisher of Arizona State University presented on the challenges faced by the interaction between modern science and the social sciences in relation to global politics.
• Halloween bake sake (10/29/10)
• Organized a State House and Senate candidates debate on 10/4/10with Senate District 5 Candidates (Schwartz and Rankin), and House District 61 Candidates (Curry, Wilson and Korkowski).  
• Organized a County Commissioner candidates debate on 10/17/10 between Candidates Starr and Chamberland.
• Dr. Brickman (Gunnison Valley hospital Board) spoke on Health Care Reform and how it affects students (3/25/09).
• Land Use Issues Speaker: Coal Creek Watershed Coalition (9/24/09).
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  2010 Halloween  Bake Sale	2010 House debate	2010 Homecoming parade
  		Political Super Heroes!

• Club meets every other Tuesday at 12:30 in Kelley 201. 
  
• For meeting information contact Dr. Maria Struble mstruble@western.edu.

2008 Election Events Highlights

• We organized a debate watching party for the final Presidential Debate between McCain and Obama.
• We helped sponsor a Town Hall style debate for the local County Commisoner race. The event also provided information on the 2008 election and Colorado's ballot.
• We held an Election Night Party to watch the election returns.
• We met to discuss the Inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009.
• We watched a documentary on the "School of the Americas" and then organized a grassroots effort to influence Congress to pass the "Latin America Military Training Review Act of 2009", collecting over 60 signatures on a letter to Congress urging support of the bill. The bill would suspend operations at WHINSEC, formerly School of the Americas, and investigate the history of human rights abuses and failed policies of the institution.

(rikki.boucher@western.edu)

(alexis.miller@western.edu)

(madison.stern@western.edu)

(skylar.johnson@western.edu)

(travis.elliott@western.edu)