Higher education, take notice. We are the alternative to campus liberalism, says Dan Labert, the program s national field director. We ve borrowed a page from the radical student organizations of the 1960s. In fact, the CLP has gone well beyond the radical organizations of the sixties, say longtime campus observers. Placing a major emphasis on training, the CLP introduces its neophyte activists to all aspects of growing a student movement, from running a meeting to winning on-campus elections to launching conservative student newspapers, activists tell Insight.
Training occurs at seminars in Arlington and at dozens of sites nationwide.
A Guide for Conservative Campus Leaders. The handbook offers 235 pages of practical organizational advice, including tips on developing a tax-exempt organization, playing host to conservative speakers, recruiting members, developing fliers and posters, organizing fund raising and even creating a Web page. There are several basic principles that we try to follow, Moha tells Insight. One has been to make sure real control of any campus unit remains with the leaders of that unit. We don t want CLP in Arlington to run it.