Mobilizing Students
Now that you have a strong group and have chosen a campaign, here are some tactics you might want to employ.

Your Rights
Firstly you should know what your rights are. If you attend a private school, you are generally screwed as you do not have the legal right to freedom of speech or association. Those rights do not apply to people operating in the private realm and that is how the courts have interpreted universities (despite the fact that since the general public is allowed on campus they are ‘quasi-public’). So private universities can do whatever they want to you for rallying, leafleting, petitioning, etc. Your organization can be banned if they don’t like you. Fortunately there is a vast difference between what your rights are and what you can get away with. For instance, activists at the University of Notre Dame chalk the sidewalks all the time. Chalking is not permitted by any rule in the student handbook, however it is also not explicitly banned and if you do it late at night and dodge security you won’t get hassled. Likewise the unrecognized Notre Dame queer student group puts up posters even though they aren’t allowed to meet on campus. The more people you have at your activity (and the more media), the less likely you’ll get penalized for rule breaking. Colleges have a hard time standing up to public scrutiny and embarrassment, since their enrollment depends on their reputation.

The point in breaking rules (ex.: if you had a rule that requires that all rallies must be registered in advance), is not to have fun being deviant, but to create a situation where the rules are not being enforced, are ultimately removed, and students achieve unhindered free speech. Then your campus will be a safe environment for activism.

Public school students have the right to protest, leaflet, petition and form organizations. The university can put reasonable restrictions as to the time and place, and even require advance notice, but they cannot ban you because they dislike your activism. This even goes for public high schools.

Older students should pass-on stories about past administrative attempts to censor their activities. At many universities you will detect a persistent pattern of administrative actions to maintain control over activists by limiting their activities.