CLR & Liberty Coalition Dinner Party

Who: Old members, new members, anyone interested in CLR.
When: 8pm, Monday, September 4th
Where: 1815 Jefferson Park Ave # 28 **
What: Continuing last year's tradition, I'd like to invite everyone to my apartment for dinner so we can get know eachother better. Fare will be pasta with some sort of sauce, along with wine and whatever else I can come up with.


**Directions: Walk down JPA away from UVA/the Hospital. 1815 JPA is on your right, right after Kent Terrace. If you get to Shamrock Rd you've gone too far. My apartment is on the right side of the building on the top floor (#28). If you get lost, call my cell phone, (703)5895290.

First Meeting 3PM, 9/3/2006

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Ho

Princeton psychologists show that length of time of exposure to a face doesn't change one's opinion of it (even if it's just a flash of 100milliseconds): http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/62/69K40/index.xml?section=topstories

They say, when we've made up our minds, we don't tend to change it.

I say to you, Princeton: "Isn't it great that your research has confirmed what we knew all along?"

First Meeting 3PM, 9/3/2006
Compiled Topics List
(we won't use all of them this week)
For sure:

• Q&A about UVA student life
• Q&A about libertarianism

Maybe:

• Power only comes from the end of a gun.
• Hard Science vs. soft science in governing human society
• Opening science grants to market based competition
• Obligations to the first amendment
• Constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
• Rights of illegal immigrants
• Treatment of disabled persons
• Guantanamo bay detention facility

Is the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional?

Does the government have a responsibility to differently-abled citizens?

Do illegal immigrants have rights under US Law?

...and what about those being held in Guantanamo?

Liberty Coalition Elections

Elections for the following offices will take place next Sunday (9/3), 30 minutes before the CLR meeting at 2:30pm.

Liberty Coalition President
Classical Liberal Roundtable President
Students for Individual Liberty President
University Libertarians President

If you are interested in running for office or voting, please attend.

2:30pm, September 3rd
Pavilion 8, East Lawn
Room 103

See you then!
-Trevor

More possible topics:

• Is opening up basic scientific research to a market-based system of competition (to replace the current system of subsidies and grants) possible? Bigelow Aerospace's $50 million "America's Space Prize" suggests an interesting new way of looking at scientific research. Would it be possible to replace government institutions like NIH with a system of grants and prizes offered for useful research in different fields?
• The 1st Amendment gives us certain rights. Does it also give us any obligations?

Current Topics List:

1. Courtesy of Mark Brewster: "I've had some good discussions over the statement 'power only comes from the end of a gun.'"
2. As a UVA specific thing, a Q&A about UVA student life with the upperclass of CLR
3. From Essembly: "I would rather live in a society governed by people who were trained in the hard sciences, mathematics, and engineering than in an equally powerful society governed by people who were trained in the soft sciences"

Signing up

*Updated 6:30PM!* See "Discussion Topics"

It was great meeting many of you at the Student Activities Fair!

If you want to sign up, there are several ways to stay connected, and you only have to do one of them.

1) Comment on this blog with your blogger account's email address (create one for free at blogger.com)
2) Send an email to ph4t [at] virginia [dot] edu expressing interest and, if you wish, giving me the email address associated with your blogger account. You can do this if you want to be informed only of CLR events.

Stop by Sunday, September 3rd at Pavilion 8!

There is no meeting this Sunday, but there will be one next Sunday.

To suggest a topic for the agenda, just make a blog post.

First Discussion Topics
For the first meeting, I'd like to add both something general and something UVA-specific to the topics list.

1. Courtesy of Mark Brewster, a general topic: "I've had some good discussions over the statement 'power only comes from the end of a gun.'"
2. As a UVA specific thing, a Q&A about UVA student life with the upperclass of CLR

First Meeting:

Sunday, September 3rd

Start thinking up topics!

CLR

The Classical Liberal Roundtable (CLR) is a First Amendment Forum at the University of Virginia. It is both a political discussion group and a social group. It's nonpartisan, with the aim of promoting interesting and intelligent discussion among students and increasing the impact and quality of their thought.

We have weekly Sunday meetings and regular dinner parties. The Sunday meetings are held in Pavilion 8 on the East Lawn. Topics for the meeting will be collected in the preceding week through this blog, and we spend a reasonable amount of time on each topic before moving on. The Sunday meetings will require little preparation on part of the members, but via the blog, interested members can post background information.

CLR's Sunday meetings are 3PM in Pavilion VIII (Room 103). Those interested in CLR should stop by. If you want more information about us, contact UVA email ID ph4t or check us out at the student activities fair.

Related Activites
CLR is a member of the Liberty Coalition (www.uvaliberty.org)

All our current members are active in the online forum www.essembly.com. It's an addicting online direct democracy and social networking site.

Our members are also extremely involved in the UVA undergraduate community. We have majors in topics ranging from Economics to Biomedical Engineering. We have members in IRO, and in both the Washington and Jefferson Societies.

Filmmakers at UVA: We're beginning a project to create online opinion shows to cover topics of On Grounds importance. If you're interested in the project, please email UVA e-mail ID ph4t. We'll try to cover all sides in On Grounds controversies. The level of involvement in the project is negotiable.