Healthcare Panel Hosted by YAL@VU, tonight

Young Americans for Liberty at Vanderbilt will be hosting a healthcare panel on the evening of Monday, March 26th,  7:00pm until 8:00pm. Held in Buttrick 206, this panel will feature ophthalmologist Dr. Ming Wang and MediBid CEO Ralph Weber. Free food and drinks will be provided to attendees.

Panel descriptions:

Surviving cultural revolution in China and appreciating freedom and choice in America - Dr. Ming Wang, Harvard & MIT (MD, magna cum laude); PhD (laser physics)
In this lecture, Dr. Wang will talk about his experience of growing up as a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution and his effort to escape the devastating fate of deportation and a lifetime of poverty. He will talk about how he came to America for freedom with just $50 in his pocket. He will also talk about his "Great American question", about why the principles of freedom and choice took root in this country and how important it is to realize how precious that is and the need to protect it.

The effect of ObamaCare on the current student generation - Ralph Weber
Ralph F. Weber is a Canadian philanthropic entrepreneur, writer, Certified Financial Planner, Registered Employee Benefits Consultant, Chartered Life Underwriter, and Chartered Financial Consultant. Weber's goal is to create a free-market health care system to help patients save money. He regularly contributes articles and speaks at public and private functions to promote awareness of domestic medical tourism, patient rights, and the economics of health care.

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Public Event: Threats to Religious Liberty: On Campus and Across the Nation

Threats to Religious Liberty: On Campus and Across the Nation

Thursday, March 15, 2012 

7:00pm until 8:30pm 

Carol Swain

Moderator: Carol Swain is a Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt.

Panel:

Michael Paulsen is a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and is among the nation’s leading scholars of constitutional interpretation.

Jim Blumstein is a professor at the Vanderbilt Medical School and director of Vanderbilt’s Health Policy Center.

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Event is free and open to the public. 

Reserved parking is across the street from the law school.

Sponsors: Vanderbilt Law School, Lee and Kelly Beaman, Campus Republicans, Young Americans for Liberty, Law and Government Program at Vanderbilt Law School, the Christian Legal Society and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Vanderbilt University Law School

131 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203

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The Battle for Free Speech at Vanderbilt University

Kenny Tan

As a Vanderbilt freshman last fall, I was excited about the university’s vision of “intellectual freedom that supports open inquiry.” This year’s freshmen, however, face conflicting forces that will either threaten or vindicate this vision of liberty, showing students what Vanderbilt is really all about.

Vanderbilt’s official blog for first-year students, Common Place, includes a “Free Speech Zone” feature where speech, for now, is not actually free. This feature is an online forum in which students, faculty and staff may post their views. Yet one of the forum rules is “No hate speech.” (link)


Comment
Kenny Tan is a rising sophomore at Vanderbilt, where he serves as president of the campus Young Americans for Liberty chapter. This article appeared a few days ago in The Tennessean. I applaud The Tennessean for publishing it and I applaud Kenny Tan for writing it and for standing up for freedom at Vanderbilt.

It continues to amaze me how liberals think they are for free speech when what they really are for is free speech for those who share their views. Liberals are for free speech as long as we don't engage in "hate speech" and "hate speech" can be hard to define. It is a moving undefined target that may simply be insensitivity.  Liberals are for free speech but want to kick conservative radio talk show host off the air.  They want those who disagree with Rush, Beck or Hannity to be given free air time to rebut the argument of those who pay for their own air time. For a liberal, "fairness" trumps freedom and they yearn for a return of the old fairness doctrine.

Liberals claim to value free speech but wish to deny free speech to corporation. They claim to value free speech but routinely shout down conservatives on campuses. They claim to value free speech but routinely support mandatory student fees that force conservative and non-political students to pay the speaking fees for left wing radicals. Forcing other to subsidize speech with which they disagree is not free speech.  Liberals are phonies who do not really believe in free speech but are so deluded they don't recognize it. 

It takes courage to be a conservative on an American campus and challenge the prevailing liberal group-think. I am glad to see Young Americans for Liberty continuing the battle for freedom on college campuses.

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