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Over the last couple of years I have
come to gain a better understanding of leadership. I see that
people need better leaders, men and women of conscience, vision,
wisdom, endurance, and grace. I have decided that I want to
be such a man, so I have placed myself in a number of different
leadership roles.
For the third year I am President of Duke
Students for Life, the campus pro-life group. I have learned
so many things in this role. The passion of a righteous cause
must be coupled with an entrepreneurial spirit if it is ever
to be effective and sustainable. Much of my energies have
been poured into this organization, and I am proud of what
it has become and what it is yet becoming.
Sometime toward the end of my sophomore year, I felt a burden
for Christian leadership in the roles of secular power structures.
I felt that the men of renown should properly be the children
of the Most High.
So I first sought to gain renown by taking a position at
the Chronicle,
Duke's daily campus newspaper, as an editorial columnist.
The regular contributors of that paper were polluting the
campus mind with so much dangerous and worthless thinking
that I could not stand by without putting in my two cents.
In every article I tried to express the truth that God has
made known to me. The people of faith were much encouraged.
Unfortunately, the Chronicle refused my request to renew my
position with them.
At the same time that I wrote for the Chronicle, I also took
a position as legislator in the Duke
Student Government. I wanted to learn how the power structure
was set up at the University. Seeing the results of ungodlly
legislation and administrative decisions at Duke, I decided
to place myself in a position of influence here. The University's
motto is Eruditio et Religio. While I believe Duke
has advanced quite far in the first, it does not seem to be
making much progress in the second. Both are essential for
this university.
Again in the pro-life arena I was named Web Director for
American
Collegians for Life, the nation's oldest and largest national,
college, pro-life organization. I gave ACL a technological
vision for increased effectiveness in the college pro-life
movement and am proud to have created an online directory
that will soon network every college pro-life organization
in America. After a year as Web Director, I am now the Vice-President
for 2002 and hope to continue to lead ACL toward remarkable
dreams.
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