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KU Turning Point chapter hopes to be apolitical group
▶ NOLAN BREY
@NolanBrey
Alex Dwyer got the idea to start the University's chapter of Turning Point USA after meeting Turning Point USA's founder Charlie Kirk in Washington, D.C., in February.
Turning Point USA KU meets Monday evening for their first full meeting as a chapter. The group's focus is to educate students about free markets and capitalism.
Kirk encouraged him, then Dwyer applied, and now, he's started a chapter at the University.
Turning Point USA is a nationally-chartered non-profit organization whose mission is to "identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government," according to the organization's website.
"We focus mostly on educating and advocating for free market economic policies and fiscal responsibility," Dwyer said. "We really aim just to educate and inform about free-market economics."
Dwyer said he hopes the organization will be a place for people who are passionate about economics and free markets.
The University's chapter was founded in April by Dwyer, who now serves as president, and Sam Salts, who now serves as treasurer.
"There wasn't really any active clubs supporting free markets," Dwyer said. "I'm really passionate about economics, and I thought there's a spot for that at KU. I think there's a lot of people who are apolitical that are for free markets, and that's really what we want to tap into."
The Turning Point USA was recognized by the Student Involvement and Leadership Center (SILC) earlier this month, and the organization is still in its infancy. It currently has six members and has met once this year.
Salts said the organization
tion is focusing on groundwork and recruiting, especially at Hawk Week in August.
"It's a lot more groundwork planning, just kind of getting people interested and then we want to hit the ground really hard when it comes to first week next semester," Salts said. "A lot of people I think don't know what capitalism is. Seeing that we're a capitalistic society, they should probably know what it is."
While Kirk, the 23-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, is viewed as a conservative activist, Dwyer said the University's chapter of Turning Point USA is meant to be apolitical.
"What's nice about Turning Point is they give us a lot of freedom to kind of run the chapter how we want," Dwyer said. "My goal of the
chapter is to keep the political theater out of it and just talk about policy."
Salts said there is too much political division as it is.
"After the whole election, there's a lot of people that aren't happy with political things, so I'd rather keep it not political, so you can have more educated people instead of getting uneducated people just talking about
capitalism," Salts said.
Dwyer said their chapter may be identified as just another conservative group, but that is not the goal of the organization.
"That's their prerogative. That's not my goal. I can't tell them what they want they want to lump us into, but we're just a group focused on economics," Dwyer said. "We're going to brand ourselves as a free-market economics club."
As for next year, Dwyer said the chapter plans to invite Charlie Kirk to speak as well as sponsor other speaking events. Moreover, Dwyer said the group will be very active on social media, meet monthly and table on campus.
"I just think there needs to be an organization that is fairly representing capitalism to the general public," Dwyer said.
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is best for the institution regardless of their popularity sometimes and sometimes her personal expense."
Burg also thought the chancellor's core values were important for a leader, but were exemplified in Gray-Little's time at the University.
“It's not about being able to do a song and dance, although she can be very entertaining, but it's really about her core values. Core values is a term we throw around real easily,” Burg said. “Truly, hers are at her
core."
Gray-Little believes that strong values will be a necessity for the next chancellor.
"You need to be flexible, but you need to have principles that you're going to follow," Gray-Little said. "You need those in the work that you do with different individuals, and there are times when there are difficult decisions have to be made and what the graces of them what values they represent for the University, those are important issues to consider."
Burg said that her favorite times with the chancellor
have been learning from her in their day-to-day conversations and learning about her values.
"I learned so much in the last eight years from observing how she goes about addressing problems, making decisions, responding to requests, dealing with very difficult situations both, you know I've observed it both the way anyone would observe it out front, but I've also observed it and supported it from behind the scenes," Burg said.
Caboni said he also learned from Gray-Little's decision-making skills, but said his favorite times
were when the chancellor showed a lighter side. One time in particular was when Gray-Little sang "Happy Birthday" to a volunteer at an event in Arizona.
"You could see jaws drop," Caboni said.
"Her national leadership in the higher education community has been stellar," Caboni said. "She got
Caboni also said that Gray-Little's leadership skills on a national level will make her legacy more valuable, and provide her opportunities, like giving the prestigious Patterson Lecture at Ohio State University.
the invitation because she is one of the most important leaders in the higher education community, nationally."
After she leaves the University, Gray-Little will join a number of higher education task forces including The Social Science Research Council's task force on the future of knowledge, which will help maintain the quality and access to national research databases.
But even though she will be joining these task forces, Gray-Little wants to take time to plan for her future.
"Between now and December I'll have a fairly light
schedule and will plan for what I want to do after that," Gray-Little said.
For now, the chancellor said she is keeping busy with commencement preparations, but is aware that there are many things she is doing for the last time.
"I'm in some ways very busy with all of the things that have to be done on a day-to-day basis between now and the end of June, but I also recognize that I won't be doing many of these things again," Gray-Little said. "Some of those seem very poignant because of that, but it's a good time, it's a good time of the year."
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