Fellow students from Adjunct Faculty Member Melody McBride’s CAT 1701 class will be putting together a free speech wall for the Young Americans for Liberty club.
McBride’s class is an orientation to construction trades and working with concrete course that’s available on campus. McBride volunteered her class to create this wall as a project in order to get it approved by the college.
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.
“A lot of what we do is to promote the message of liberty,” Young Americans for Liberty club President Josh Hail said. “We are the largest pro-liberty organization [U.S. college] campuses [and] we’re trying to get a perception of students’ view on government spying. That is going to be one of our prompt questions — how they feel about NSA.”
Hail said he felt that the free speech wall would impact students.
“We have projects that the national organization puts together and we just pick from those projects,” Hail said. “The free speech wall was what we picked we felt that a 20-foot wall would make an impact and get a lot of visibility.”
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.
“Members 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,” Hail said. “It’s a wake up call trying to stir people up from their everyday lives to see what’s going on in the world. Even though they’re serious topics, we try to do it lightly. There’s not much as a student organization that we can do except inform people, so we have to have fun.”
Young Americans for Liberty, along with the students from McBride’s class, are expecting to see students ready to speak their minds at this event. If any student has questions or wants to learn more about the organization and it’s purpose, email Hail at Joshua.Hail@my.sinclair.edu.