Fellow students from Adjunct Faculty Member Melody McBride\u2019s CAT 1701 class will be putting together a free speech wall for the Young Americans for Liberty club.<\/p>\n
McBride\u2019s class is an orientation to construction trades and working with concrete course that\u2019s available on campus. McBride volunteered her class to create this wall as a project in order to get it approved by the college.<\/p>\n
The goal of the free speech wall is to incourage student involvement and create a platform for students to participate in other activities. The YL club said the free speech wall would do just that.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of what we do is to promote the message of liberty,\u201d Young Americans for Liberty club President Josh Hail said. \u201cWe are the largest pro-liberty organization [U.S. college] campuses [and] we\u2019re trying to get a perception of students\u2019 view on government spying. That is going to be one of our prompt questions \u2014 how they feel about NSA.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hail said he felt that the free speech wall would impact students.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have projects that the national organization puts together and we just pick from those projects,\u201d Hail said. \u201cThe free speech wall was what we picked we felt that a 20-foot wall would make an impact and get a lot of visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event will take place at this wall on Wednesday, Oct. 9, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m. The wall is being set in place outside of Building 7 by the fountain.<\/p>\n
\u201cMembers of our YL team will be running a table beside the wall, students will be given markers and construction paper to post whatever they feel about the government on the wall,\u201d Hail said. \u201cIt\u2019s a wake up call trying to stir people up from their everyday lives to see what\u2019s going on in the world. Even though they\u2019re serious topics, we try to do it lightly. There\u2019s not much as a student organization that we can do except inform people, so we have to have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n