UWL's Speak Easy is an organization that encourages students to volunteer to speak in front of an audience of their peers on any given subject: formal, informal or impromptu for student body enlightenment. The Speak Easy is an officially approved UW-L organization based in the gathering of a collective body of students in order to promote basic and advanced public speech skills, self-confidence, a
nd general intellectual advancement of the student body. This is accomplished through holding two meetings each month in which students come together to present formal speeches, informal readings, or impromptu monologues. Informal readings refer to any number of possible texts, including but not limited to poetry, short stories, chapters of any given book, articles, etc. Impromptu monologues refer to students simply speaking, informally and without the given text, or from memory, about a given issue. These three categories of speaking will serve a general purpose: to enlighten the audience of students, peers, community members, and faculty. The purpose of the group will be centered around students putting themselves forward in hopes of promoting their own speaking ability in front of an audience, through reading or discussing any given text, whether formally or informally, to spread the ideal of intellectual progression among the listening student body.
