Campus Reform: North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Students at North Carolina State University were encouraged to cut class to attend Presidents Obama's campaign speech supporting his "jobs bill."

In a letter from the Provost, Warwick Arden, Professors were even encouraged to offer excused absences to students attending the event. Campus reform was able to talk to multiple students and confirm their attendance at the event was excused. 

Just five months after the NC State Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) chapter members deligently collected over 2,300 signatures to bring Ron Paul to campus, he was standing before a crowd of over 1,000 to discuss his newest book, Liberty Defined.   His speech can be viewed here.

After the student government increased student fees two years in a row, the University's Board of Trustees approved a proposal to increase tuition by hundreds of dollars should the University's funding be further cut by the state.The proposal suggests a tuition increase of $300 for in-state undergraduate students and $600 for out-of-state and graduate students as a result of expected state budget cuts.

Kelly Hook, Student Body President said:

"Currently they are projecting between a 10 to 15 percent budget cut, so tuition may be increas

The North Carolina State University Young Americans for Liberty (NCSU YAL) has started the semester off strong.

On September 25-26, NCSU YAL was represented at the Leadership Institute's Youth Leadership School at Wake Forest University.  There the members learned valuable techniques that they immediately began implementing when they got back to campus.

For the past few days, members of the NCSU YAL have been a constant presence on campus gathering signatures as part of a petition to bring Representative Ron Paul to their campus.  So far, the group has managed to obtain more than 1,600 signatures.

President of NCSU YAL, Rob Bryan told Campus Reform:

So far we have seen a lot of positive support for our event and are excited about getting NCSU politically active. The group started with the goal of obtaining 800 signatures but by the end of the week our chapter managed to collect over 1600 signatures with the help of our NC YAL network.