History

May 5th 2008 – PAC founded by Sal Chiarelli, Jay Chen, and Joseph Chung

Fall 2008:

Sal Chiarelli (President)

Jay Chen (Vice-President)

Andrew Cheung (Treasurer)

- Website created.

- Got our club and description on Baruch’s list of clubs.

- Got a club room.

- Attended Freshman Convocation & Club Fair.

- Gained affiliation with the Leadership Institute, a conservative, but non-partisan organization.

- We represented PAC at the Leadership Institute conference in Boston.

- Co-hosted the Oxford Debate, a mock presidential debate, with Sigma Alpha Delta.

- Represented PAC at Leadership Weekend (sponsored by USG and StuLife) and spoke to Baruch president Kathleen Waldron about a written student bill of rights.

- Pursued to have a written student bill of rights through the Baruch bureaucracy, but it ultimately led to a dead-end.

- Successfully lobbied the Baruch Undergraduate Student Government to pursue CUNY calendar change to cancel classes for election days.

- Written to various Congressmen to meet and discuss sponsoring the “Read the Bills” Act; no response.

- Gained affiliation with the Downsize DC Foundation.

- We had 2 movie days; 13 Days and First Blood.

- We had a few days discussing the financial situation, how it began and how it will go.

Spring 2009:

Sal Chiarelli (President) – Andrew Cheung (Vice-President)

Hektor Dhima (Treasurer) – Steven Steigman (Secretary)