{"id":19165,"date":"2006-05-02T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:38","slug":"waltont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/02\/waltont\/","title":{"rendered":"National recruitment record earns Bates student a leadership award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/05\/natewalton.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/05\/natewalton.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"natewalton\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Walton &#8217;08, chair of the Maine College Republicans, has received the Richard M. and Helen DeVos Freedom Center Award for Student Leadership from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Walton received the award during the institute&#8217;s National Leadership Conference on Saturday, April 22, in Indianapolis. He received the award for making Maine the top state in recruiting ISI members during the 2005-06 academic year, and for his efforts in promoting the values of American freedom on Maine college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing together students and faculty from across the United States, the conference was dedicated to Milton Friedman, author of the book <em>Capitalism and Freedom<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 1962), and his insights into the role of competitive capitalism as a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was honored by the opportunity to attend the 2006 ISI National Leadership Conference and was humbled that ISI presented me with the 2006 DeVos Freedom Center Award,&#8221; said Walton, of Marblehead, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Walton was unanimously elected to a second term as state chair of the Maine College Republicans during the organization&#8217;s state convention on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Wilmington, Del., the Intercollegiate Studies Institute was founded in 1953 to promote among American college youth a better understanding of the economic, political and spiritual values that sustain a free and virtuous society. ISI has volunteer representatives at more than 900 colleges, and more than 50,000 ISI student and faculty members on virtually every campus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>ISI conducts more than 300 educational programs on campuses each year, offers graduate fellowships to aspiring college teachers and circulates more than half a million copies annually of its major publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Walton &#8217;08, chair of the Maine College Republicans, has received the Richard M. and Helen DeVos Freedom Center Award for Student Leadership from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90054,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions\/90054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}