file: /pub/resources/text/ProLife.News/1992: pln-0220s.txt --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life Communications - Volume 2, No. 20 Special Issue December, 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is intended to provide articles and news information to those interested in Pro-Life Issues. This is a special issue on incoming activities of interests to Pro-Life collegians, including a nominations form and a proxy ballot for the American Collegians For Life 1993 Officers' Elections. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please note: This will be the last issue for 1992. The next issue (with lots of interesting stuff) will be out early in January, 1993. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) American Collegians for Life (ACL): In an effort to promote the ACL elections, and to help the group reach a wide national audience, an ACL Board Member requested that i distribute this information, and ask those, especially those who have not been involved with the ACL, or those who have a particular vision for supporting and promoting the pro-life activities on the nation's campuses to become involved, to volunteer, and especially to vote in the ACL's elections. What is the ACL? The only National Student Pro-Life Organization (at least that i know of). They will be sponsoring their annual leadership conference next month (January, 1993) in the DC Area. Not surprisingly, it has been orchestrated to occur immediately after the annual March for Life in Washington DC, commemorating the anniversary of the "Roe-vs-Wade" decision that legalized abortion-on-demand in the United States. The purpose of this special issue is two fold, it is both to inform, and to request; i hope to inform folks about the ACL, and encourage all who are interested in the College Pro-Life movement to become more aware of what is going on at the national level. I also wish to ask those who are in a position to participate, or know others who may be in a position to participate to do so. In many ways, the College pro-life movement has always been around, but has only become organized on the state and regional levels in the last ten years. More recently has a national organization appeared, and begun to receive interest from larger national groups, who have been looking for ways to promote life on the college campuses. Due to the dedication and hard work of a number of students, mostly from the DC area, the ACL has grown quite a bit, and as an organization, is reaching the point where it can begin to have a positive impact on campuses throughout the nation and beyond. It is the desire of the ACL board that as many schools as possible get involved with the ACL - and to enable the officers have more ability to work on a national level, they have instituted scholarships for those who are elected to the post of president and all other elected positions. The key is to fill those positions, and hence this special issue. Please, if you know of any student who would make an excellent leader of a national group - encourage them to attend. Encourage all schools to attend, and to see that they are represented in an organization that wishes to represent the pro-life collegiates nationally. Please note the dates: The ACL requests that all proxy applications be postmarked before Christmas!! [Dec 23rd] If you are interested and will be applying late, please forward your proxy intensions and a letter requesting special consideration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) SPRING 1993 American Collegians for Life Elections American Collegians for Life (ACL) is a national college pro-life group which strives to represent the college pro-lifer. In order to serve all college pro-lifers, ACL needs every college pro-life group's participation in the ACL Officers Elections to be held Jan. 23, 1993. This election will take place during the ACL Leadership Training Conference in Washington, DC. If you are planning to attend the Conference, please be sure that your group is represented at the ACL Officers Elections (voting is one group = one vote). If you cannot make the ACL Conference and no one else from your group is attending, your group can still be represented in the ACL Elections by designating a PROXY. If you are a representative of your group (for instance, if you hold an office) you may designate any student attending the Conference to be your group's proxy. It is best if you can get someone from your area who is attending to vote, but in a pinch, any student can serve as a proxy. If you have no particular proxy in mind, i would ask that you designate ANDREW SICREE, to be your group's proxy for the election. Andy is an ACL Board Member and a grad student at Penn State. He has been active in the college pro-life movement since he was an undergraduate and started the pro-life group at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Andy will contact all who need a proxy for the elections, and can be reached by phone (814) 466-7460, email [sicree@geosc.psu.edu] or by snailmail (letter) PO Box 759 Boalsburg, PA 16827 If your group has been involved with the ACL before, you or your group should receive a copy of the election procedures soon (if not already). If you have not / do not receive elections information from ACL soon, please contact me (call 814-466-7460 or write Box 759, Boalsburg, PA 16827) and I will make sure you get a copy. If you need a proxy, please use the forms below. Send the first form to American Collegians for Life, and the second copy to your designated proxy. For those who are interested in a proxy, but would rather not work with a complete stranger, i [steve - your overworked editor] can also serve as a proxy. Please contact me at (412)761-6911 or snailmail 38 S. Euclid Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15202. Email: frezza@ee.pitt.edu Proxy form: (anything similar will do) -----------------------------------(cut here)---------------------------------- PROXY BALLOT FORM: AMERICAN COLLEGIANS FOR LIFE 1993 OFFICERS' ELECTIONS I, ________________________, being a full-time, registered student (undergrad or grad) at ____________________________ (College/University) and a duly-designated representative of my campus pro-life group (Group name: ________________________ Office held: ____________________________) certify that no representative of our group will be able to attend the American Collegians for Life Elections to be held at the 1993 ACL Leadership Training Conference in Washington, DC, on Jan. 23, 1993, and hereby designate _____________________________ as our proxy at the elections. I understand that I will communicate with our proxy prior to the elections so that he/she may accurately represent our group when casting a ballot as our group's proxy. MY NAME: _____________________ ADDRESS: ______________________________________ PHONE: _______________________ ______________________________________ Signed: ______________________________ Date: ________________ Mail postmarked before Jan. 6, 1993 to: ACL, P.O. Box 1112, Washington, DC 20013 -----------------------------------(cut here)---------------------------------- PROXY BALLOT FORM: AMERICAN COLLEGIANS FOR LIFE 1993 OFFICERS' ELECTIONS I, ________________________, being a full-time, registered student (undergrad or grad) at ____________________________ (College/University) and a duly-designated representative of my campus pro-life group (Group name: ________________________ Office held: ____________________________) certify that no representative of our group will be able to attend the American Collegians for Life Elections to be held at the 1993 ACL Leadership Training Conference in Washington, DC, on Jan. 23, 1993, and hereby designate _____________________________ as our proxy at the elections. I understand that I will communicate with our proxy prior to the elections so that he/she may accurately represent our group when casting a ballot as our group's proxy. MY NAME: _____________________ ADDRESS: ______________________________________ PHONE: _______________________ ______________________________________ Signed: _______________________________ Date: ________________ MAIL THIS COPY TO YOUR DESIGNATED PROXY: Mail postmarked before Jan. 6, 1993 NOMINATION FORM: AMERICAN COLLEGIANS FOR LIFE 1993 OFFICERS' ELECTIONS I, ___________________________, being a full-time, registered student (undergrad or grad) at ___________________________ (College/University) hereby nominate the following students to run for office in American Collegians for Life: Name College/University Office _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ Signed: ______________________________ Date: ________________ Mail postmarked before Dec. 23rd, 1992 to: ACL, P.O. Box 1112, Washington, DC 20013 ---------------------------------(cut here)-------------------------------- 3) UPCOMING EVENTS JANUARY 16: Life Leadership Institute Strategic Planning Seminar, Glenside in S.E. PA. Speaker: Bill Bennington of Bell Institute, "Direction for You and Your Group". $15 regis. includes materials, coffee, and lunch. Contact: Life Leadership Inst., 861 Township Line Rd., Elkins Park, PA 19117, (215) 576-1355. JANUARY 22-24: American Collegians for Life Leadership Training Conference, Washington, DC. ACL, a national collegiate pro-life organization, holds its annual conference at the Washington Marriott. Speakers include Molly Kelly, Dr. Jack Willke, John Cardinal O'Connor, Carol Everett and more. Registration is $45 ($55 after Dec. 30) and includes Sat. breakfast, Sat. evening banquet, and Sunday brunch. Housing not included in registration fee, limited free housing available. Contact ACL Conference c/o Jennie Edwards, Box 1840, Fairfield Univ., Fairfield, CT 06430, (203) 254-9103. JANUARY 23: American Collegians for Life Elections to be held during the ACL Conference in Washington, DC. All offices open for election. Beginning this year, pro-life scholarships will be awarded to those winning elections to ACL offices. $700 for ACL President, $500 for all other elected positions. Get in- volved! All college pro-life groups are eligible to vote in the ACL elections. Nominations must be postmarked by Dec. 23rd. For more info contact ACL directly at P.O. Box 1112, Washington, DC 20013, or call ACL Board-Member Andrew Sicree at Box 759, Boalsburg, PA 16827, (814) 466-7460 as soon as possible. FREE Pro-Life Political Cartoons for Your Campus Paper: Stop the Killing, Inc., P.O. Box 7725, Metairie, LA 70010, will provide camera ready copies of their pro-life cartoons which you can use in your newsletters or submit to your campus paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote of the Month: "There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of a higher order than the right to life. That was the premise to slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation, because that was private and therefore outside of your right to be concerned. (Don't let the pro- choicers convince you that a fetus isn't a human being.) That's how the whites dehumanized us, by calling us niggers. The first step was to distort the image of us as human beings in order to justify that which they wanted to do - and not even feel like they'd done anything wrong." - Jesse Jackson (prior to his 1984 campaign conversion) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Credits: | | This issue is based on College Pro-Life Information Network (InfoNet) | | newsletter, coordinated by Andrew Sicree. See the address above. (Article 2)| | QOM - Nat Hentoff's 11-30-92 article in __The New Republic__, with many | | thanks to reader Dean Schulze. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To everyone, a very joyous Christmas to you, and a wonderful New Year (1993). Your Servant, Steve Frezza.