Progressive Picnic connects students to communities

from The Northern Iowan.

The Progressive Picnic, held Aug. 25, brought the different progressive groups and progressive-minded people of the University of Northern Iowa community together. The Northern Iowa Democrats, UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers, Philosophy Club, UNI Proud and One Iowa at UNI joined together to put on the recruitment event, the first of its kind in recent memory.

"When UNIFI came to me, they wanted to start this up and we came up with the name ‘Progressive Picnic' and progressives and Democrats kind of go hand in hand, so I was totally in on it," said senior Kristen Meyers, head of the Northern Iowa Democrats. "I want to get kids involved, especially with 2012 coming. We want all those voters and forms ready to go."

...A major goal of the picnic was to expose and recruit students to the different organizations.

"I hope the students realize there are way more progressive students and progressive student groups on campus than they thought and if they are progressively minded students, I hope they realize that there are communities on campus for them, " said senior Cory Derringer, the president of UNIFI.

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