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Debbie Downer and the ASUN Summer Movie Series

John Russell — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:35:25 +0000

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Fall 2010 Meetings and Activities Announced!

John Russell — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:25:02 +0000

The UNR Students for Liberty are happy to announce our Fall 2010 lineup of activities and meetings. Our party planners have a fantastic and carefully constructed lineup for UNR – complete with more activities and coinciding meetings. We hope that you will join us in activities which interest you and submit possible ideas for other items we could be doing throughout the course of this semester. We would like to remind you that this is a tentative list which can be modified, changed, or completely ignored as circumstances and greater opportunities present themselves.

Note: Because we don’t know when the ASUN funding periods begin and end due to their website sucking, we cannot place specific dates on these activities.

Events for Fall ’10

The primary focus for events and meetings this fall will be based around commonly held but inherently flawed economic ideas. We will be demonstrating the ridiculousness of these thoughts by showing students firsthand why they don’t work at a campus level, and why they will not work on a state or national level. Events will generally be followed up with a corresponding meeting.

[Event] 3rd Annual How to Survive a Police Encounter – Do you know how to properly and effectively flex your constitutional rights during a police encounter? Do you know what to do when an officer of the state tries to get you to talk about something or have you do something that you know (or may not know) violates your Constitutional rights? Join us as we will be showing a (new) video and inviting an expert on the matter to answer questions. Every citizen and student should attend – especially incoming freshman and students living in the dorms where a police encounter is likely and devastating. The UNR police even show up to the event, why shouldn’t you?
[Event] Putting America Back to Work – Stimulus money provided by the ASUN will be used to put home grown, freedom loving Americans back to work in these tough economic times. The UNR Students for Liberty will be hiring a day laborer to dig a ditch somewhere on campus and fill it back up for a week straight. Just as governments hire street workers to tear up roads and put them back together in the name of stimulating the economy, UNR’s campus and student body will be stimulated with the productive activities of student government-created jobs.
[Event] Tragedy of the Trojes – Just as governments abroad provide many “free” goods and services such as police protection, healthcare, and roads, so will the student government by providing students with free Los Trojes food. Come one, come all, as student money will be used to pay for food from the local on-campus restaurant to provide food and drinks to the student body! Exploitation and greed will absent as all students are welcome to partake. But be sure to get there early as long lines, shortages, poor quality, rationing, and over-consumption will likely result in goods which are “free”.
[Meeting] Economic Fallacies – The tragedy of the commons, the broken window fallacy, and others will be presented at this meeting.
[Event] Chess Club Bailout – Just as governments and corporations alike are too big to fail, so is UNR’s Chess Club. Recently, UNR’s finest chess players, due to circumstances outside their control, have been slammed with a terminal amount of $50 of debt. Luckily for the student body and UNR as a whole, such a fine institution will endure as it has been decided that they are too big to fail. Join the UNR Students for Liberty as we sell ASUN subsidized items to help raise funds to fix this problem and better the campus as a whole. Just as ASUN pays for baked goods to help clubs fund raise, ASUN will be subsidizing items (don’t worry, it won’t be a bake sale) which will be sold with all proceeds going to bail out this deserving and critical club. Without it, we fear the very fabric of UNR will crumble.
[Event] Local Business Bailout – Times are tough out there right now, so what better opportunity do we have other than to strap on our boots, put on our gloves, and spend other people’s money to help support local businesses which are struggling. Spray tans, massages, hair stylists and others will be bailed out for the day as we bring such wonderful services to campus in the name of bettering our community.
[Meeting] Bailouts and Subsidizations - Using coercion and force to take money to spend on noble causes are rarely justifiable.
[Philanthropy Event] Smoke-A-Thon – Do you hate lung cancer as much as we do? Then come out and get heavily subsidized cigars as we light up and smoke out cancer at UNR.
[Meeting] Human Liberty - Defined.
[Event] Club Funding – A primary factor to our previous success has been the money provided by the ASUN. Well, we would hate to keep our success from other clubs and individuals who are interested in learning how to navigate the bureaucracy of ASUN. Therefore, the Students for Liberty will be holding a seminar (which will be a million times more useful than whatever the paid staffers throw together) and flying in ASUN expert and recent graduate Travis Hagen (the former SFL treasurer) on how to achieve the biggest bang for your ASUN buck. Learn valuable tips and advice to help propel your organization and club with the funding needed to reach your goals. Mock funding hearings and practice sessions will be included. You don’t want to miss this.
[Possible Meetings] Logic and Reason, Monopolies
[Ongoing Event] Abolish ASUN Movement- As many are well aware, a petition has been circulating around campus to officially petition the board of regents to abolish the ASUN. Many were upset when we showed how ASUN and the university as a whole squanders money on events and items which usually go to support only the most zealous and active students and bureaucrats. This semester, we will continue the officially recognized and approved petition to reach the required amount of signatures to place it on the ASUN ballot (which, conveniently, only supporters of ASUN ever participate in). Every one of our activities will have an opportunity available for students to sign the petition to abolish ASUN.
[Co-op Event] Abolish ASUN Carnival – Due to the massive expansion and popularity of the Abolish ASUN Movement, a new club, “Abolish ASUN”, appears to be getting created. UNR SFL will team up with the members of the Abolish ASUN club to host another colossal event which will again dwarf any other club or ASUN event – both in size and popularity. Stay tuned for this semester’s fantastic lineup of food and fun.

Continue to check this website, sign up for the email list, and join us on facebook to get up to the minute news, event times, locations, and other things. We are all very excited for this semester, and we hope to see some new faces and old this coming fall!

We Are Finalists on Cop Block!

John Russell — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:31:59 +0000

Nate and I entered Cop Block’s Friday’s Finest competition where we go and video tape police activity. Our efforts last weekend yielded us a finalist in the $250 competition. We are planning on doing this every weekend. Tonight Nate and I will be roaming the strip area of Reno again, but this time we are going to have the knowledge center’s $5,000 HD camcorder and I will be open carrying. Check out our submitted video below, and don’t forget to check out Cop Block at http://copblock.org. If any of you would like to join us, shoot me a line. It is a lot of fun!

Another Decisive Victory Over Eurasia… err.. Afghanistan!

John Russell — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:21:05 +0000

Happy Memorial Day fellow citizens – a glorious day to drink some victory-gin! May God Bless the USA!
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/31/al-qaeda-official-reportedly-killed-recently-pakistan/

(A better guide to) Your Taxes in Action!

John Russell — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:25:18 +0000

In response to Barry’s earlier post, I believe this diagram gives a much better guide to where taxes go.

Ireland and Anarchocapitalism

John Russell — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:06:37 +0000

For those of you who can’t seem to imagine a society without sovereign coercion.

2010 Tripartisan Debates – Minimum Wage

John Russell — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:00:48 +0000

The UNR Students for Liberty participated in a debate with the UNR Young Dems and the UNR College Republicans. Throughout the course of the upcoming weeks, I will be cropping certain debate topics that were touched upon in either the shotgun short answer rounds or the longer more involved rounds and post them.

It should be noted that the skit we performed illustrating a method which betters the human condition was not recorded due to a camera malfunction. If anyone out there filmed this, we would love to place this in our archives and I would sincerely ask you to drop me an email: johnrussell [at] unrforliberty.com. Without further adieu, I present one of the shotgun topics: Minimum Wage. Enjoy.

Everything the ASUN Did Last Year Is Null and Void

John Russell — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:22:13 +0000

The judicial council just ruled that every law, every useless paper copy, and every dollar that was ever spent by the ASUN last year was illegal. The ruling from the judicial council states:

IT IS, THEREFORE, HEREBY ORDERED THAT Petitioner’s motion for summary
judgment is GRANTED, Senate Bills, 1 through 19 are hereby declared null and void, as the passage was not properly certified. Any action that took place, or funds that were dispersed must be properly authorized, or they are to be considered illegal.

Read the full document here: https://asun.unr.edu/Docs/Judicial/3_415201011529AMan003.pdf

So… when do I get my illegally spent ASUN fee back? If this isn’t a reason in and of itself to sign the petition and Abolish ASUN, what is?

Absolutely Worthless…

John Russell — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:09:48 +0000

This was filmed during regular office hours in the ASUN wing of the JCSU….

[BREAKING] UNR Budget Crisis Alleviated

John Russell — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:46:32 +0000

Or so the hacks at the ASUN would have you believe. I will challenge anyone, anywhere, anytime who tries to justify the fiscal actions of ASUN and specifically their most recent “Howl @ the moon” disaster. UNR SFL and members of the abolishment movement were going to go and collect signatures for the petition, but quickly called off the effort due to the miserable turnout of the event. Seriously ASUN – go away. Give students their money back. This event was more ridiculous than ours – the pictures speak for themselves:

Approximately 30-40 students enjoying the fees of nearly 14,000 students as they spin it away in a sweet gyro-ball.

ASUN sponsored security guards keeping the unruly hoards of people peaceful.

The concession stand is busy keeping everyone well hydrated and fueled up for the festivities (other ASUN hacks).

Dancing the fees away!

FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN!

Reason #5 for abolishment: ASUN redistributes funds from the apathetic to the annoyingly active.

See Exhibit A below:

Join the abolishment movement on facebook.
Sign the petition -> http://abolishasun.com