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‘Liberty is your answer’ Ron Paul shares his views on liberty and government with USF students.
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Former congressman and presidential nominee Ron Paul told students in the Marshall Student Center on Wednesday they are inheriting a failed system and must take action to create a new system based on individual liberties. ORACLE PHOTO/ ADAM MATHIEU
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When Ron Paul spoke, the audience sat with bated breath. When Ron Paul paused, the audience roared on cue. Though the crowd of 660 in the Marshall Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday were fewer in number than the Sun Dome two years ago, the former congressman proved his message still echoed on college campuses. “There seems to be some young people here, I’m delighted,” he said. “You’re inheriting a mess, but there’s a way out.” Though retired from Congress, Paul said he has championed a message of individual liberty and small government since the 1970s, with or without a seat on Capitol Hill. “When I first told my wife I wanted to run for Congress,
she asked why would you want to go to Congress,” he said. “I said I just want to get some things off my chest, but she said that could be dangerous – I could get elected.” His point, he said, is it is up to individuals to initiate a change by becoming leaders in the community. “You don’t need to be a congressman – it might help – but you want to do something you believe in,” he said. “If you’re looking for peace and prosperity, liberty is your answer.” Liberty is a people’s freedom to pursue their own life choices and take responsibility for them, Paul said, without government interference. “How many people in a crowd like this believes what the government tells you?” he said over the booing audience. “How many believe in half of what the government tells you?” Paul said he knew congressmen who openly considered their constituents “too stupid” and incapable of running their own lives. “I do not think that you’re too stupid,” he said. “You can
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USF alumni travel the world via Peace Corps By Chelsea Mulligan C O R R E S P O N D E N T
Botswana, Togo, Fiji, Peru and Mongolia are just some of the places where USF students have been stationed in the Peace Corps. Over the past year, USF has seen a increase in the number of Peace Corps graduate students serving overseas. The university has gone from No. 16 to No. 5 in number of participating graduate students. Peggy Defay, a USF graduate student in public health and head of the USF Peace Corps recruiting office, said
the recent success was due to a general global perspective at USF. “USF is a big global school, even where my office is located within USF World, there is a big push for the global world and being culturally sensitive,” she said. Defay said the success was also due to teamwork within the recruiting office as well as cooperation between USF Public Health and the USF College of Engineering. “We do a lot of outreach, we speak a lot in classrooms, we have a lot of information sessions and we have application workshops,” she said.
“Generally, being the face of Peace Corps on campus is important – letting people know we exist.” There are 13 USF alumni currently volunteering worldwide for the Peace Corps, a national program established by President John F. Kennedy that allows graduate students to pursue their studies while serving abroad in disadvantaged and developing nations. This is a 30 percent increase from last year and adds to the list of 406 USF alumni who have traveled through the program. According to Defay, USF students are passionate about
going abroad, which leads to increased participation in the Peace Corps. “Student are looking for other things at this point in time, and (the Peace Corps) gives them the opportunity to go abroad especially because they don’t have to pay anything,” she said. Defay has personal experience with the Peace Corps, having served in Namibia for two years. “It was nothing short of amazing,” she said. “I was able to develop professionally and personally. I was able to
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