[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21218-21219]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          TRIBUTE TO UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON COLLEGE REPUBLICANS

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                           HON. BOB SCHAFFER

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 21, 2002

  Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend and congratulate 
the University of Dayton College Republicans. The student-led 
organization is comprised of the university's best and brightest 
students. Furthermore, the club played an important role in leading the 
Great State of Ohio in establishing the current Administration of 
President George W. Bush.
  According to the group's mission statement, the purpose of the 
University of Dayton College Republicans is to promote and foster the 
ideals of the Republican Party, aide in the election of local, state 
and national Republican candidates and involve as many students as 
possible in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

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  Mr. Speaker, the UD College Republicans have clearly distinguished 
themselves among other political organizations on campus. Their 
outstanding web site (www.udayton.edu/-colrepub/) details the superior 
attitudes, opinions and beliefs that set the organization apart and 
attract the loyalty of their wisest peers. The group's creed reads as 
follow:


       I BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies with the 
     individual and that each person's dignity, freedom, ability 
     and responsibility must be honored.
       I BELIEVE in equal rights, equal justice and equal 
     opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or 
     disability.
       I BELIEVE that free enterprise and encouragement of 
     individual initiative have brought forth this nation 
     opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
       I BELIEVE the government must practice fiscal 
     responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the 
     money they earn.
       I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for 
     the people only those critical functions that cannot be 
     performed by individuals or private organizations and that 
     the best government is that which governs least.
       I BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive 
     government is government closest to the people.
       I BELIEVE Americans must retain the principles that have 
     made us strong while developing new and innovative ideas to 
     meet the challenges of changing times.
       I BELIEVE Americans value and should preserve our national 
     strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom, 
     and human rights throughout the world.
       FINALLY, I believe the Republican Party is the best vehicle 
     for translating these ideas into positive and successful 
     principles of government.

  Mr. Speaker, the UD College Republican organization is the bedrock of 
virtue, morality, the paragon of freedom on the UD campus. As a UD 
graduate of 1984, and a former officer of the UD College Republicans, I 
hereby call upon our colleagues in the U.S. House to recognize the 
illustrious organization as one of America's finest and most worthy 
student-leadership institutions.
  I further commend the University of Dayton for hosting the UD-CR 
organization. The existence of this powerful and mighty group provides 
an opportunity for the university's most promising intellectuals and 
venerable scholars to bask in an oasis of truth, justice and honesty, 
replete with piety and reality, and bereft of the political liberalism 
that has infected academia generally. They are the candle flame 
elevated upon the bushel--the light by which all others navigate.
  Congratulations to the University of Dayton College Republicans for 
setting the lofty standard for American patriotism and for its 
embodiment of righteousness. Indeed, it is written in Ecclesiastes 
10:2, ``The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of 
the fool inclines to the left.'' God is on their side!
  May the wise hearts of the UD College Republicans remain in the right 
and perpetually triumph over the foolish hearts of that other party 
that lurks on the left; and may they enjoy eternal recognition by all 
at the University of Dayton and throughout the land as ``The Best Party 
on Campus!''

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