CPU Newsletter

October 31, 2005

CPU EVENTS: "Young Conservative Activists: The New Force in American Politics" with Ron Robinson (Wednesday, 11/02, 5:30PM)

CPU EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. "Young Conservative Activists: The New Force in American
Politics" with Ron Robinson, President of Young America's
Foundation (Wednesday, 11/02, 5:30PM)

2. The CPU Election Guide (Available on campus, Thursday, 11/03)

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

3. The Voting Rights Act: Its Past, Present, and Future

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1. The CPU Proudly Presents: "Young Conservative Activists: The New
Force in American Politics" with Ron Robinson, President of Young
America's Foundation

Date: Wednesday, 11/02
Time: 5:30PM
Location: Satow Room, Alfred Lerner Hall (5th Floor)

Description: Ron Robinson is the President of Young America's
Foundation. Robinson served as Executive Director of Young
Americans for Freedom (1977-79), President of the United States
Youth Council (1983-85), and President of the International Youth
Year Commission (1983-84). He was as an advisor to the U.S.
Department of Education during the Reagan Administration.

Robinson has served as a trustee of the Philadelphia Society, and is
currently a Director of Citizens United and the Citizens United
Foundation, a Director of the American Conservative Union, a
Director of the United Seniors Association, and the Vice-President
of the Free Speech Defense and Education Fund.

Mr. Robinson has appeared as a guest on Firing Line,
C-SPAN'sAmerican Perspectives, ABC's Person of the Week, FOX and
Friends,
MSNBC, CNBC, and Fox News.

The CPU is proud to co-sponsor this event with the College
Republicans and College Conservatives.

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2. The CPU Proudly Presents: The CPU Election Guide

Available: Thursday, 11/03, distributed on campus

With biographies, commentaries, and criticism from opposing
candidates, the CPU Election Guide is a must-have for the upcoming
NYC elections. Get yours beginning Thursday!

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OTHER EVENTS:

3. In Memory of Rosa Parks and in Honor of Her Struggle for Civil
Rights, the Columbia American Civil Liberties Union Presents...

"THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT: ITS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE"

Featuring:
- Debo Adegbile, Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund
- Juan Cartageña, General Counsel at the Community Service Society
- David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran, CU Professors of Political
Science and Directors of the Center on Political Economy and
Comparative Institutional Analysis (COPECIA)

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, November 2 at 8:00 P.M.
LOCATION: 304 Barnard Hall (117th and Broadway)

Refreshments will be served.

Co-Sponsored by Accion Boricua, Amnesty International, Black
Students Organization, and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar
Chapter

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