Drinking Liberally
| By KevinCollins - Mar 16th, 2005 at 10:02 am EST |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Last night I went to my local (Philly) Drinking Liberally for the first time. I was pretty impressed. By the time I left about 25 people showed up, about half of whom it seemed had a blog. There was good discussion among active progressives, the Ten Stone had great beer on tap, and it was overall just a great time.
Just one problem. Where were all the college students?
From the look of things, there were more actual seniors than college seniors at this drinking event. My roommate and I may well have been the only college students in attendance. This type of event is great at building social capital and strengthening the progressive movement, and beer is a particularly effective vehicle for politics among college students. I'll be trying to get a few more of my college friends to come to the Philly event next time, but even that's not enough.
It is not as if organizing through socializing is unknown on campuses. The problem is that it is not happening enough. College students need to host these and similar types of events on their campuses to build solidarity among the various theads of campus liberalism.
What kind of social events does or can your campus progressive organization hold?
Just one problem. Where were all the college students?
From the look of things, there were more actual seniors than college seniors at this drinking event. My roommate and I may well have been the only college students in attendance. This type of event is great at building social capital and strengthening the progressive movement, and beer is a particularly effective vehicle for politics among college students. I'll be trying to get a few more of my college friends to come to the Philly event next time, but even that's not enough.
It is not as if organizing through socializing is unknown on campuses. The problem is that it is not happening enough. College students need to host these and similar types of events on their campuses to build solidarity among the various theads of campus liberalism.
What kind of social events does or can your campus progressive organization hold?
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junior at Temple and i still have a year and
half
til my 21st birthday.
as for the campus progressive socialization,
our
progressive organizations over here are
controlled
by lazy people who haven't called a meeting
since
the election. and since only officers of the
club
can call a meeting, i've tried and been
denied.
frustrating, for the students who actually want
to
do some good! we can't even meet, let alone
socialize.
(any suggestions on how to combat this
problem?
i'd run for president of the college dems in a
second, but they have become so defunct [and
they
only began a year ago!] that there isn't even
any
mention of elections.)
;)
while i get your general point, one thing i like about DL in philly is how we have a pretty diverse age group. most of us socialize with people roughly the same age as us, so i like the opportunity to interact with older and younger people there
so its great if you can bring more college students with you next time, but feel free to bring anyone else who would be interested as well. the idea is to create a social event for liberals to network, not to create a college-age happy hour.