Describe the key strategies and methods used by Amanda Collins, Landen Gambill, and Emma Sulkowicz in order to get their political agendas recognized and converted into law or policy and analyze the effectiveness of their political actions.

What will be an ideal response?

Students should discuss such strategies and techniques as political protest, quest for institutional change, use of nontraditional political techniques such as the Carry That Weight campaign, use of traditional methods such as activating voters and politicians alike as well as working to achieve institutional changes at the local, state, and national levels by calling for and campaigning on behalf of new laws and policies that would address CCW possession on college campuses and the problems of domestic and sexual violence among young college students. We can see the impact of these campaigns in the area of sexual violence at an institutional (local) level within the colleges and universities in question as well as by passing state laws in favor of or prohibiting CCW on college campuses and the proposal of bills in the House and the Senate that would change how violent crimes, particularly domestic violence and sexual violence, are reported, investigated, and prosecuted. Ultimately these three cases are examples of how individual campaigns can take on a life of their own and impact lives at a local, state and national level.