While other Elizabethtown College clubs handed out candy from tables at the Academic Quad during Halloween, Elizabethtown College’s Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) group did it from the ground. YAL President and senior Justin Greiss set up a bag of candy next to what he called a “Civil Liberties Graveyard,” which included several headstones with specific liberties written on each.

“The purpose is to spread awareness and promote our club,” Etown YAL President Justin Greiss said. “We are a club based on the philosophy of liberty and one issue of ours is the deterioration of our civil liberties in America. As the stones suggested, we view the elimination of gun rights, threats to the first amendment, loss of freedom in health care, et cetera as detrimental to our country.”

According to Greiss, a civil liberties graveyard is a creative idea suggested by YAL national.

“We thought it would be a creative way to express our ideas and have some fun doing it,” Greiss said. “We participated in the Senate trick-or-treat on Wednesday and displayed our project and then wanted to continue it on Friday.”

Greiss also said that some YAL members walked by a few times during the day and saw several people taking pictures of the display.

“I participated to get the name of YAL out into the public,” first-year Kyle Schaeffer said. “I thought it got our points across in a sarcastic and funny way.”

Once they were done with the political cemetery project, four members of YAL attended the “Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference.”  The conference was held at the University of Pennsylvania last week.