HRC Weekly -- Volume XI Prefrosh Edition

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The HRC Weekly
Harvard Republican Club Bulletin
Class of 2009 Prefrosh Edition

This week’s contents:

Welcome, Class of 2009 Republicans!

II. Join Us at the Activity Fair!

III. First Event: Ice Cream Bash, Thursday September 15, 7-8

IV. HRC Weekly: Keeping You Up-to-Date

V. A Note on this Email

Quote of the week...

"The establishment of a democratic constitution in Iraq, just like the establishment of a constitution in Afghanistan last year, will be a landmark event in the history of the broader Middle East. And it will bring us closer to the day when the nation of Iraq can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself."

- President Bush, in his weekly radio address delivered today

TOP PHOTO: Audience members at a "Women for Roberts" event listen to women speakers supporting Supreme Court nominee John Roberts at the National Press Club Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005 in Washington. A group of women leaders announced their support for the confirmation of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, responding to what they said were attacks from liberal special interest groups. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

BOTTOM PHOTO: Teresa Ediger, of Dallas, Texas, holds a poster of her son, who is currently serving in Iraq, while she cheers at a pro-Bush rally, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005. The rally was held at "Camp Bush" in Crawford, Texas, opposite the Camp Casey antiwar group. About a thousand people turned out to show their support at a rally for President Bush and the troops. The pro-Bush caravan was coordinated by Move America Forward, a group led by former Republican California Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian and strategist Sal Russo, who in 2003 launched one of the two simultaneous efforts to recall California's then-governor, Democrat Gray Davis. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Welcome, Class of 2009 Republicans! - All of us at HRC look forward to meeting you soon as you begin your first year at Harvard College. We hope you'll join HRC when you get here, not just for our first event or at the activities fair, but for the next four years.

The Harvard Republican Club is a vibrant community of conservatives that has provided many of us with some of our best college experiences. This past year our activities ranged from weekends campaigning for President Bush in New Hampshire to club socials and parties to speakers and debates with top officials from the RNC and the White House. HRC has a membership roll of more than a thousand students, and many of our members make their best friends through the club.

Involvement in HRC is also a solid way to gain leadership experience for the real world. HRC is one of the most active organizations on campus with several events per week, and we recently won the CRNC's award for the most active College Republican chapter in the country. HRC alums include former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and Massachusetts Lt. Governor and gubernatorial hopeful Kerry Healey. HRC has a number of divisions dedicated to different aspects of the club, so you can get involved in the activities that appeal to you most. You can join one of these at our first board meeting.

To get a better idea of what HRC does, we'd encourage you to look at some of our bulletins from this past year, which can be found at http://www.harvardgop.org/hrc_weekly.html (note the underscore "_")

We'll see you soon!

II. Join Us at the Activity Fair! - If you haven't already become a member, or if you want to talk to us about anything, pay dues or buy a T-shirt, then stop by our table at the freshman activities fair on Monday, September 12th from 11:30 to 2 (everybody will be there). HRC will be in the political section. We'll also have free HRC pens and candy and if you pay your dues, you'll get a swanky membership card :). Being a dues-paid member also entitles you to preference in our ticket lotteries and is one requirement for voting in our elections.

III. First Event: Ice Cream Bash, Thursday September 15, 7-8 - This will be held in Littauer M-16, next to the Science Center. It is not listed in the Calendar of Opening Days! Come meet your fellow Republicans in the Class of 2009, as well as upperclass HRC members. A brief talk will be delivered by Professor Gregory Mankiw, who was Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and who will teach Harvard's famous Ec-10 course this year.

IV. HRC Weekly: Keeping You Up-to-Date - This fall, you'll start to receive the HRC Weekly newsletter at the beginning of every week, much like this one. The Weekly contains an official listing of all upcoming HRC events, plus additional events and announcements of interest to Harvard Republicans. If at any time you want something to be listed in the Weekly, you can send a description, time and date to Stephen Dewey at sdewey@fas.harvard.edu. We also encourage you to submit photos of HRC events to Stephen for inclusion in the Weekly sidebar and in our website's photos section, www.harvardgop.org/photos.html. Starting this semester, we also intend to include weekly "action items" in the bulletin drawn from the national and state parties, and sometimes from our own efforts.

HRC also has a second email list, gop-announce, which is used occasionally for time-sensitive official updates.

V. A Note on this Email - This email was sent to all prefrosh who gave us their email address at the prefrosh activities fair. We also sent this email to prefrosh who list themselves as "conservative" or "very conservative" on thefacebook.com, or who are members of the "Class of 2009 Republicans" or "Harvard Republican Club" groups there. If you do not wish to receive our weekly emails, please accept our apologies. Simply respond to this email and let us know and we will remove you immediately. Freshmen with an FAS account will automatically have their non-FAS account removed soon.

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