This weekend, I traveled down to the University of Miami with Mickey Jackson and Jenna Fox, STAND’s National Outreach Coordinators, and Daniel Teweles, STAND’s National Student Coordinator, for the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference. CGIU, started by the Clinton Global Initiative at Tulane University three years ago, drew over 1300 student activists, entrepreneurs, and organizers from all 50 states and 83 countries to network and share information about organizing strategies and project development.

Trivia Answers: 149 Afghan civilians were killed by NATO airstrikes in 2009.  

Discussion: How do airstrikes and drone strikes affect conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Are either types of strike legal?  

It’s true what Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”

Every successful organization has little groups within it, completing the larger body. Arizona State University STAND is no exception. The ASU chapter is small, a group of 8 committed members. Size, however, does not matter. As long as those individuals are eager and passionate, anything can happen.  

With only one more day of polling to go, Sudanese citizens have been flocking to the polls. However, many officials still site chaos, claiming that very few people who actually registered to vote made it to their designated site. For example, in South Sudan, 1,323 voters were registered for a specific site, but only 29 (or 2%) successfully made it to the poll on the first day.