There is something sad and slightly comical about this story.
Demanding compulsory funding from Virginia taxpayers and student tuition does not strike me as an appropriate goal - or a victory - for a Conservative political organization.
YAF are simply making the left live up to their own rules which is a good thing. If enough lefty’s start questioning why their tax money is supporting conservatives perhaps they, like us, will question the wisdom of funding any campus groups.
Background: When I went to school, back in the stone age, student groups were funded by part of one’s tuition. So, Palestinian, GLBT, Communist, etc. student groups were all being funded by part of my - and every other student’s - money. The University had rules regarding the process by which one could form a group, and I’m going to assume this school runs in a similar manner.
Back to the article: The Conservative student didn’t make the rules, and they would probably agree with you regarding mandatory funding of different groups. But, since those rules are the ones in place, they have the right to get funded, just the same as, say, Queer Communist Cross-Dressers of Gaza.
that’s a good point. As a measuring tool of the university’s need to “walk back” a policy, it is problematic, sort of the reverse of the great line by M. Stanton Evans—”Liberals don’t care what you do as long as it’s compulsory.”