Burnt Orange Report

Patio Party

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

Here on the UT Austin campus, we realized that as much as we wanted to have a House Party most of us lived in dorm, apartments, or cooperatives. So we scrapped the house and got ourselves a Patio and had a Party on the Patio on campus by the Texas Union. I have a couple pictures here and here.

Tonight, 50 students took the time to spend three hours listening to two outstanding live music acts by Abi Tapia and Bonnie Whitmore, a conference call, and the Steering Committee of the Campus Alliance Against Inequality talk about our efforts on campus. They signed up for activities and some are joining us for a West Campus blockwalk this weekend.

But two things inspired me tonight.

After Glen's call, I placed a box I had labeled with the word Victory on the nearest table. I called upon those gathered that we could not be satisfied on campus with an empty victory and pledged to personally match up to $200 in donations with my early Birthday money. And after that Victory box had visited every member of the crowd over the next 10 minutes, $200 in donations came in from those 50 students making for $400 in total funds.. Let me repeat that- students on a Friday night donated $400 to fight against inequality to defeat Constitutional Amendment #2.

If that wasn't enough, we also had two brave souls step up to the task of organizing outreach into West Campus Co-ops, filled with sympathetic and activist students who are for the most part with us but may not know about this election yet. That means up to 1000 more students could soon be informed by their fellow co-opers that the Nonsense stops November 8th.

11 Days to Register, 39 Days until Victory