Fellowship--Pizza Lunch.3/7/12

• C2LS will hold its first Fellowship Event of 2012 at noon at 3/7/12 at venue TBD by the size of the response from its membership
• RSVP to aevans@tisonreddinglaw.com
• The Q of Sharpening will announce our first C2LS CLE of 2012 during the lunch, so you'll have that going for you as well as some pizza and fellowship with other members

2/21/22--Coffee-rama

?When:     2/21/12. 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

?Where:    201 South Tryon Street, Suite 915

?Why:        To discuss means and methods for the resurgence of the C2LS

?What If I Can't Be There:      Use the call-number:

                          (605) 477-2100
                          627734#

?Will There Actually Be Coffee:     Ahhh, not really. You better bring some.

Freedom To Dissemble

     Under CLS v. Martinez public universities are now permitted to adopt an "all-comers" policy that requires university recognized student organizations ("SRO") to accept any and all applicants for membership and leadership positions. That sounds fine on a superficial level, but no deeper. Because in practice, it forces an SRO's doors open to someone espousing views diametrically opposed to the group's very purpose. So, theoretically, an entrepreneurial-minded libertarian could join the Campus Communist Youth Party (and run for president even) and the young Marxists would have no choice but to put up with him if they wanted to keep the important benefits that come with being an SRO.  

     Last fall, Vanderbilt University implemented an "all-comers" policy under Martinez (even though as a private institution it is not restrained by the First Amendment and could simply ban CLS if it so chose), and then (this month) announced its intent to begin enforcing it. At a public hearing on the issue,Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for academic affairs challenged a law student and CLS member to "be open to a member that doesn’t share your faith beliefs who could be a wonderful member of CLS, maybe even a leader. But we’re not saying you have to vote for that person. We’re simply saying that person, who maybe does not profess allegiance to Jesus Christ as his or her Lord and Savior, should be allowed to run for office in CLS." 

    Thus, per the chancellor, a person who is a sworn Non-Something could somehow be a "wonderful member" or "even a leader" of a group so dedicated to that very Something that the members of the group make that Something the first word in the name of their group, as the Christian Legal Society has done. Assuming that Vanderbilt's administration actually believes this absurdity, what does it possibly hope to gain by forcing groups like CLS to test it?
         

Begin The Begin

     Charlotte is blessed with a bar full of talented Christian lawyers who have been too busy the last couple of years to keep the CLS going regularly. Which is a problem, because we need to meet regularly to reach maximum potential. So, we are going to get this thing moving again and we are looking for those lawyers out there who want to help us Begin the Begin.