Monday, December 3, 2007

Today's Event

Today, we welcomed Cato policy analysts Ted Galien Carpenter and Justin Logan to our campus. We had a great turn out to our event (over 50 people, with good questions and an open ear), and we have made a great impression! They have promised to spread the word about our club, and our campus in D.C.! So, thank you and thank God, we had a great turn out, more than enough food, and great discussion.

If you were at the event and have a comment and opinion please send us an e-mail. Or if you want to you can write a small opinion piece for our blog! If you missed the talk, but want to know the details, we'll up date the blog with a small summary within the next week.

If you are interested about finding out more about these speakers, or if you have speakers in mind for next semester please e-mail me! We love to get more people involved and organizing events! Also don't forget to join our facebook club if you haven't yet: http://pepperdine.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2324194878. Thank God, we have had a good semester. I also want to thank Erin Shimata, Robert Ramos, Dr. Chris Soper, Dr. Stan Warford and ICC for all their help! You guys are great.

Below is a recap of all we have done this year. If you are interested in taking a more hands-on position e-mail me. We want to fill up more offices for next year. And with this, looking forward to next semester and to fomenting political understanding with you guys, I wish you a Merry Christmas!

-Sara Benavides
FPU President
Sara.Benavides@pepperidne.edu

FPU- Fall 2007 Mayor Achievements
  • Fulfilled the requirements to become an official club at Pepperdine
  • Started the year learning more about smaller parties, in specific for this semester the Libertarian view
  • Started our blog: http://forumforpoliticalunderstanding.blogspot.com/
  • Participated in the Iraq Week events
    • Created an information poster
    • Provided fliers with information for the events
    • Helped with the advertisement
  • Obtained backing from some of the mayor think tanks: Heritage, Cato, AEI and hopefully more next semester.
  • Semester event: Beyond the Red and Blue: a talk with Ted Carpenter and Justin Logan
Thank you!