UK KFTC has been very busy this semester and I wanted to take a minute to recap all of the work that we’ve done this semseter.
Just recently we decided to put together a voter guide for UK’s student government election. We asked all the candidates a series of questions on a variety of issues that included how to make UK more diverse, safe, enviromentally friendly. All of the candidates responded. We created a website uksgaelection.org. We managed to have UK send out a campus wide email and we handbilled across campus to promote it. The website garnered over 4,000 hits.
UK KFTC also managed to get a major represenative of the Clinton campaign to awnser a question about mountain top removal. When Chelsea Clinton came to campus last tuesday Joe Gallenstein was the first person she called on. He used this opprotunity to ask where her mother stood on the issue. She awnsered that her mother had voted against in the past and work towards finding a balanced solution in the future.
Recently we took a moment to reflect on what we had done up to this point and what we hoped to do next year. Everyone was pleased by the amount of students we had registered to vote, the student turnout for KFTC’s two major lobby days, the concert we held last year, the SG voter guide. But we all agreed that there are areas we can improve in. Next year we hope to grow our membership on campus and increase the number of active members we have. Also, at the start of last year we decided that workers rights should be a major focus of our chapter. This an issue that we have not done a lot of work on and next year we hope to change this.
The year isnt over yet. We still have to pick our officers for next year and decide what out longterm vision will be.
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