F eminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal and National Coordinator Kathy Spillar are traveling to twenty-one campuses throughout the country to reach out to thousands of college students and help start and/or enlarge Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance units. Smeal and Spillar are speaking about the CHOICES campaign, the first project of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, which will reach tens of thousands college students with a pro-choice message through study and action components including public education events and specific projects such as "Adopt-a-Clinic," in which students will be trained as volunteers for local clinic defense and escort services.

"The radical religious right pours massive resources into campus organizing," said Smeal. "The Campus Crusade for Christ has an international staff of 14,200 people. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Collegians is on over 100 campuses. The Collegiate Network, which funds right-wing college newspapers, has launched 54 newspapers at some of our country's most prestigious schools. The progressive groups have got to offer students an alternative."

CHOICES focuses on choice in four major areas: Saving Reproductive Choice, Narrowing of Choice, Choices in Leadership, and Choices in Careers.

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance units are open to feminist women and men students, and have already been started by students at a wide range of universities and colleges, from private schools such as Brown University, Oberlin College, Swarthmore College, Vanderbilt University, and Wellesley College, to public schools such as California State University - Chico, Miami University of Ohio, Queens College, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Several colleges and universities have decided to give class credit for participation in the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.

To help more units get started, six field representatives work out of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Arlington, VA office. The field representatives are especially eager to start units in areas where abortion clinics are besieged.

Field representatives include Angela Arboleda, who just graduated from George Washington University; Sarah Boonin, a recent Duke University graduate; Amy Davison from George Mason University; Amber Jamil from Smith College; Nina Selvaggio from the University of Illinois; and Kristin Sostowski from Swarthmore College.

For more information about starting a Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance unit, or to apply for a field representative position, call Dee Martin, National Programs Associate, at (703) 522-2214, or send e-mail to: dmartin@feminist.org. €