Posted on 03/09/2017 11:05:16 AM PST by nickcarraway
Students did not think Turning Point USA was an appropriate fit for the campus, but a vice provost overrode the decision.
A conservative student organization, fighting for a toe-hold of official recognition in the liberal Bay Area, scored a victory at Santa Clara University where a vice provost overturned a student senate decision and granted a charter to Turning Point USA.
In an unprecedented move, Vice Provost of Student Life Jeanne Rosenberger announced late Friday that the group — which espouses “fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government” — qualifies for Registered Student Organization status. That makes the group the first chapter in Northern California to get such recognition.
“We feel really good about this,” said SCU student Caleb Alleva, who led the efforts to form the club. “They rejected us based on illogical reasoning, trying to lump us together with the national chapter’s interactions. You can’t base our actions off other people — you can’t deny someone because of something they might do.”
Matt Lamb, a national director with the group, said he was “really proud” of Alleva and hopes to see “four, five, six more clubs up in the area pretty soon.”
Other chapters of the group have caught flak from the left for bringing firebrand speaker Milo Yiannopoulos to campuses in other states. Yiannopoulos is a defender of the alt-right and a former Breitbart editor who resigned last month when a video surfaced of him light-heartedly condoning sexual relations with children as young as 13.
Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk is a frequent critic of liberal policies, often using social media to attack socialism and its adherents. In overturning the decision, Rosenberger disagreed with students who questioned the appropriateness of Turning Point, saying her decision is “consistent with our treatment” of other student groups and that the schoolcan’t
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Hmmm... some of our universities are not lost causes at all...
A Jesuit Institution with great Business & Law Schools. Smart move.
Santa Clara University was once a Jesuit institution, a proud exponent of Catholicism, and a champion of the Western cultural condition. No longer. Sadly the Jesuit order has descended into an unspeakable cabal. It must have pained them mightily to “recognize” this benign conservative group
Correction: egomaniacs purporting to represent students.
No good reason for student government to exist at all. All it does is empower human debris like this.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the alt-right streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
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