Student Republicans Plan 2 Special Events

Skidmore's Young Republican Assembly (SYRA) will host two special events on campus over the next week. Admission to both is free and open to the public.

Conservative Challenge Week

Author Dan Flynn will wrap up the SYRA's Second Annual Conservative Challenge Week when he speaks at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. Flynn, a frequent lecturer on the college circuit, will give an interactive lecture titled "Exposing Leftist Lies That Have Obscured America's Greatness". The Young America's Foundation is a co-sponsor of Flynn's talk.

Flynn's books include Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas and Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness.

From 1994 to 1997, he was a program officer for Young America's Foundation, and from 1997 to 2003 he was executive director of Accuracy in Academia. His articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, The American Enterprise, The Washington Times, Human Events, and National Review Online, among other publications. He has been interviewed on network and cable TV and numerous radio talk shows.

Gubernatorial Candidate John Faso on Campus

The SYRA will welcome Republican gubernatorial candidate John Faso on Monday, April 17. Faso will share his political philosophy in a public talk scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium. The community is welcome.

Faso is the former minority leader of the New York State Assembly who narrowly lost a bid for State Comptroller in 2002. He has thus far received the endorsement of numerous Republican county committees and former rival, Secretary of State Randy Daniels, who ended his run for governor earlier this month, throwing his conservative and upstate political support to Faso.