The COLLEGE RIGHT-TO-LIFE
HANDBOOK
Andrew A. Siicree
[Contents | Next]
Introduction
Welcome to the challenging world of the college right-to life movement.
It can be said that one's college years are among the most personally rewarding
of one's life. But to make these years equally rewarding to others - to
your country and to your countrymen - is a challenge of which many of today's
students are unaware. You, in your interest in the college right-to-life
movement, have accepted this challenge and undertaken to join the most
important, most altruistic cause being advanced today on college campuses
across the country. This book was written by a college pro-lifer expressly
for the college pro-lifer, so read on, and do your best to help bring an
end to the scourge of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
Pro-life college students have brought new meaning to the word "underprivileged".
Most of us are pretty poor, and in many ways the college right-to-life
movement is in the ghetto of the pro-life movement (which is itself from
the wrong side of the tracks). College students are new in the pro-life
neighborhood. Funding for college right-to-life groups is next to non-existent.
Publicity about the efforts of college pro-lifers is non-existent. Few
people are even aware we exist. In short, we need all the help we can get.
This College Right-to-Life Handbook is intended to serve as a
resource for college students working to bring the right-to-life movement
to their campuses. It is meant to be a practical, working manual - with
a smattering of pro-life theory for good measure. I'm not sure it will
help you climb out of the ghetto, but at the very least, I hope that it
will help you, the college student, surmount some of the obstacles before
you as you set out to do your bit to defend the right to life.
It is important to realize that the college right-to-life movement is
indeed a movement, not a club. Clubs stay the same, they keep traditions
or customs the purpose of which is to maintain the status quo. A
moral or political movement seeks to change that which already is, and
an active movement cannot cling to one fixed way of doing things. It must
change as the times change and yet still seek to accomplish the same objective.
I hope this handbook will provide a base from which college pro-lifers
can reach out to change their campuses and their world.
Several chapters may appear superfluous. The earlier chapters on beginning
a college right-to-life group will be of little interest to those students
in groups already well established. Hopefully, the later chapters, containing
ideas for programs, and the chapter on leadership will be of service to
all.
This handbook cannot pretend to be exhaustive; there are, no doubt,
entire facets of college right-to-life work which I have missed or glossed
over. This handbook presents my view of how a college right-to-life group
can be organized. I don't claim that there can't be other, better models
for pro-lifers working on the college campus. As there was almost no information
available on college right-to-life groups, I have had to rely primarily
upon my own experiences with the Carnegie-Mellon University Association
For Life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate
Federation for Life in the compilation of this text. The limitations of
my experience are all too apparent at times.
I would, however, like to acknowledge the influence of Don Adams and
Deb Dilliard of Pennsylvania State University Students for Life and Jeannie
Wallace and Rebecca Marshall of University of Pittsburgh Students for Life
on the preparation of this text. Jeannie Wallace first brought me into
the college right-to-life movement, and Don Adams was the first to suggest
that college pro-lifers might need a comprehensive handbook for their work.
Encouragement from Deborah Dilliard and Rebecca Marshall has been the chief
reason I ever managed to complete this text - Rebecca's help with the editing
was beyond value and her criticism of early drafts had a great influence
on the final form of this text. Deb has done a marvelous job in building
the college right-to-life movement in Pennsylvania and her insights have
proven to be invaluable. And there are numerous others who have read various
rough drafts, offered helpful comments, and contributed stories to the
text. I would hope that they realize that they have my thanks, too, even
though I do not have room here to recognize each of them individually.
Andrew A. Siicree
April 3, 1985,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
[Contents | Next]
© Copyright Andrew A. Siicree, 1985, 1997.
Permission is granted to any pro-life group or pro-life individual
to copy this handbook provided that proper attribution is given. If copies
are made please send your name and address to A. A. Sicree, at P. O. Box
10664, State College, PA 16805.
Andrew A. Siicree, April 3, 1985.
Be a TLC Lifeguard
Before You Leave...
We hope you enjoy our web site and find it useful as a resource center.
Please take a moment to rate our site.
Will you help?
Will you help us continue to make this resource
available to thousands of monthly visitors from around the world?
Yes
Texans for Life Coalition
P.O. Box 177727
Irving, TX 75017-7727
(972) 790-9044
webservant@texlife.org
|
