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A year later: Cheney Protest

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, or revive one back from the dead, but browsing the Salt Lake City Weekly “Best of Utah 2008″, guess what was listed as BEST BYU EVENT… that’s right, they’re still talking about the change we made. You can check out the full article here, or just read […]

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Some great songs, especially anti-Vietnam War and civil rights songs, classic cultural critiques from the left of the 1960s.

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T-shirt poll!!!

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Here is your chance to make a difference… well at least for the fashionable representation of our club this year. Cast your vote in the poll on the right! >>>>>>>>>>

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Officer’s Meeting Today

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Just a reminder: we’ll be having an officers meeting today at 6pm in 240 SWKT.  Everyone who is already on the executive council, who would like to be an officer, or who is thinking about possibly maybe becoming an officer is very much invited…see you there!  (We should be done no later than 7pm)

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URGENT! Burma Rally Approved

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Dear people who care to rally for Burma,
First of all, thank you for caring to rally for Burma. Second of all, the good news: we have finally been approved by the administration to rally for Burma! Third of all, I apologise if you receive this multiple times.
Here’s the info:
Wednesday, October 17
11AM-1PM
JFSB Quad
We need people to […]

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From our President…

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Friends,
Some of you have requested that we send these out earlier in the week to allow you more advance notice on our activities, and I want you to know that you are 100% correct and I had one all set to go on on Monday, but then some intereresting “developments” happened with our planned speaker, […]

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Sen. Harry Reid’s Visit w/ Us

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Thank you to everyone who helped out on this incredible event. We had nearly an hour with the senator, most of the time spent with him answering our questions. Some answers may have been surprising, but without a doubt Harry Reid is a hero in our club. Hopefully someone took good notes and we can […]

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Sen. Harry Reid’s Speech

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

 The following is the transcript of the Senate Majority Leader’s speech given today at BYU as per RGJ.com
Some highlights were:
*Reid’s explanation of how he can be Mormon and a democrat
*Stating his belief that democrats won’t be in the minority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints much longer
*Affirming his stance on global warming […]

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Harry Reid - Honorary Degree

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

MESJ (Mormons for Equality and Social Justice) just sent out the following email:
I read recently about Senator Reid’s visit to BYU this week and I wanted to reach out to you with a question.  As some of you know, I was the author and organizer of the anti-Cheney petition which ultimately garnered close to 4,000 […]

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Compatriots,
OK, details have been confirmed on the first College Democrats/Republicans event of the semester, so here you go:
COLLEGE DEMOCRATS/REPUBLICANS PANEL DISCUSSION: IRAQ POLICY AND PULLOUT
Thursday, October 4 (that’s tomorrow!)
7-8:30pm, 3106 JKB
This will be a great discussion on Iraq and U.S. policy, with lots of opportunities for students to be informed and ask questions of our […]

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