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Old Dominion University student and CFACT Driessen Fellow Jamahl Evans organized an event to get students from campus to get outdoors. He set up a photo contest asking his peers to demonstrate the beauty of nature with a picture and a short essay to describe what the photo is. The contest had wide participation with nearly 100 submissions. Below you can find the winning essay which goes with the feature photo from...

Driessen Fellows have become well known for getting involved in their vocal activism but also get involved in the nuanced research of public policy proposals, then making their thoughts known during public comment periods. University of Houston student Gadai Bulgac is the latest to post his thoughts, this time to the Federal Highway Administration, who are considering standardizing all electric car chargers to a single variety. This intern eloquently wrote his thoughts as to why...

This week, America saw a total solar eclipse cut across a large swath of the nation, getting the attention of many people. CFACT saw this as a fantastic opportunity to educate the public about the realities of climate change and its connection to the sun. The organization had their student volunteers pass out eclipse glasses with fact cards giving important information regarding how our solar system’s central star impacts the cyclical climate change...

Recently, CFACT Driessen Fellow Victoria Sellhausen took part in a club fair at her school, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There, clubs gathered to display opportunities for the student body to get involved with like minded individuals on campus. Representing TPUSA and CFACT, the young activist engaged with hundreds of students demonstrating how, contrary to mainstream media narrative, farmers and conservatives in general promote a healthier planet through the free market. She...

The college baseball season recently started and CFACT joined in the festivities of this all-American tradition in a way that only this organization can. CFACT National Field Director Greg Neff joined up with Driessen Fellow Eann Tang to crash the Bradley University versus University of Illinois game in full costume. The school which had long been represented by a native warrior a few years ago swapped mascots for a bird...

Did you know that the Vikings grew barley and raised cattle in the now frozen lands ofGreenland? Neither did many of the students of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville before National Field Director Greg Neff showed up on campus. The head of CFACT’s collegians division went to the school with a fun ax throwing game to pull students in. Dozens took part and, after demonstrating their Viking skills, the young people...

Recently, National Field Director Greg Neff took to Kent State University to give a talk about the rising cost of living in America. Speaking to a Students for Liberty group, the head of CFACT’s collegians division spoke on the numerous reasons for the reduced living standards of the current generation. The talk was divided into three main arguments: inflation, taxes, and regulations. When discussing inflation, Greg hammered on America abandoning...

CFACT Driessen Fellow Darren Fife, in partnership with Grand Valley State University’s TPUSA club,organized an event to educate students about the importance of free speech in America. The event, dubbed “Hot Take and Cakes”, had the group offering students a free piece of cake if they would write a “hot take” and post it on the board. The idea was to demonstrate how everyone held some non-conventional beliefs and expressing them was not harmful. In...

The recent rule being considered by the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow the New York Stock Exchange to establish “Natural Asset Corporations” was recently defeated and CFACT Driessen Fellows played a part in bringing down what many critics said would be a disaster for the United States. One critic, Utah State Treasurer Marlo Oaks, said about the proposed NACs, “private interests, including foreign-controlled sovereign wealth funds, could use their capital...

In recent years, US farmland has been a major commodity being purchased by entities not historically associated with agriculture. These actors, both foreign and domestic, have often expressed interests that are far from beneficial to the continued security of American liberty. Driessen Fellow Kayley Chartier of Fort Hays State University in Kansas thought this was an important issue and recently spent a day educating her peers about this issue.  Kayley...

CFACT really bugged some students this past week as they confronted the youth at Florida Atlantic University with their Beef or Bugs kit.  In recent years climate alarmists have made declarations that mankind must make all manner of personal sacrifices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but few of those demands are as disgusting as their proposal to replace meat with insects.  Students picking between freedom beef and big government bugs To...

CFACT’s National Field Director Greg Neff and Driessen Fellow Gabe Chambers attended LibertyCon, a libertarian conference hosted by the international student organization Students for Liberty, this past weekend. The duo interacted with hundreds of attendees from every continent, spreading the word about free market environmental solutions. The message was roundly applauded by everyone who heard the purpose of CFACT. Two overseas NGOs, one from Nepal and another from Sri Lanka, even requested follow up meetings in hopes...

This week, CFACT National Field Director Greg Neff and Leadership Institute Regional Field Coordinator Alex Smith teamed up to spread the word about free market capitalism at the University of New Orleans. After decades of supporting government intervention in the market, such as the recent campus protests calling for DEI requirements in the state, New Orleans has one of the country's poorest populations. Being Mardi Gras season in the Bayou State, the duo adopted the festival’s motto...

CFACT headed out west this past week to Arizona to participate in the largest conservative conference in the nation, America Fest (Amfest).  Hosted by Turning Point USA, CFACT co-sponsored the event and was able to make its presence known to many of the roughly fifteen thousand people in attendance. With a booth in a prominent location, National Field Director Greg Neff and Driessen Fellow Gabe Chambers (a meteorology major from...

CFACT collegians at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville just completed a poll on student attitudes toward fossil fuels, and the results were surprising. Over 100 students were given the opportunity to voice their opinions on a chilly November day about whether or not fossil fuels should be banned. CFACT has regularly seen less opposition to fossil fuels than media would like to claim exists, and this day was no different. Despite two-thirds...