We have a pro-life club on campus, and hoo boy, do we have problems with the student society government…
Anyway, here’s our website, which is unfortunately seldom updated (as you will see):
ams.ubc.ca/clubs/lifeline/
Our membership is of course not what we would like it to be, but we have about 20 active members, of which about 10 are “hard-core” active (funny, of these hard-core members I think 8 are Catholic…), and our mailing list is something like 50. Among those in the mailing list we think there may be some spies from the other camp, though, because, well, they seem to pretty much know our every move…
Anyway, I’m just a wee minion, not a vice-prez or treasurer or even just some kind of leader, but I think how we advertise is by way of the student society’s club lists, ads, and blurbs, both on their website and on student organizers/agendas. There’s also a week in the beginning of the term when all the clubs get a little booth for people to see them and decide whether they will join. So we pretty much do nothing by way of our own advertising… except by just being out there when we do events and things, which for the time I’ve been with the club has included having an information booth in the main student building, hosting conferences and speakers, protesting with signs that question the use of “choice”, and our big thing each term, the GAP exhibition. We also sometimes do little surveys/quizzes on campus. I don’t think we’ve done prayer vigils, but that’s because we try to keep the arguments in the secular realm, through science, basic philosophy, and logic, which is really the only way to even have a chance at reaching the typical university student.
I think, being such tiny voices in the midst of the culture of death, college pro-lifers/pro-life groups should keep in close touch with one another if it’s possible, to reinforce each other or just help out with ideas… we try to do this with the other university’s pro-life club and one of the colleges’ pro-life club (which incidentally has just recently been allowed club status after a long, hard battle… yay! :clapping: ). A nation-wide list of pro-life clubs in colleges and universities would be great. One for Canada, too, maybe, if someone will dare to start it?
