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Vent: our club had to pick between a silent protest and a sign table, and the boring choice actually worked
Our tiny free speech club at the community college in Dayton met last Tuesday to plan something for the week after spring break. We had 14 members in a room built for 8, and the argument came down to two plans: a silent sit-in outside the admin building or a plain old sign-up table in the quad. Half the club wanted the sit-in because it would get press and feel like a real statement. I pushed hard for the table because we had exactly $60 in our account and zero experience with campus police. We voted 9 to 5 for the table, and I honestly expected it to flop. We set up for 3 hours on a Wednesday and got 41 signatures on a petition about the new speech policy draft. The campus paper sent a reporter anyway, and nobody had to get hauled out of a hallway. Now the sit-in folks want to know why we didn't do both. Where's the line for you between making noise and just getting a list built?
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jakeb811d ago
Think about who actually reads the petition, because a sit-in gets eyeballs for a day but that sign-up sheet is a list of people you can call next semester. The sit-in folks are right that you could do both, just not on the same day.
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