After start-up, the groups are left to their own programs and raise their own money. The best way to learn how is do something to be a leader, is to actually do it, explained Mark Montini, the Leadership Institute s vice president for programs. The group already sponsored its first lecture by Karen Miller of the Heritage Foundation. Her topic, Gender Politics, was controversial among the women s studies majors and other leftist groups that Mr. Krempasky says he invited. But open debate is what the Richmond Conservative Union is all about, he says.
Academia is about the exchange of ideas on both sides.
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