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Campus Report ^ | August 10, 2009 | Deidre Almstead

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by: Deidre Almstead, August 10, 2009

My time spent at the Campus Progress National Conference was anything but a welcoming forum to discuss different ideologies. However, in her recent column Emily Rutherford of Campus Progress makes it seem like I was welcome with open and tolerant arms to the Campus Progress National Conference. Unfortunately Emily had to waste her time traveling to the Young America’s Foundation conference before she was kicked out for live-blogging, while Campus Progress tells you not to even bother coming.

In her article Rutherford describes the Campus Progress conference as having “welcomed attendees of all different viewpoints and encouraged them to blog and tweet about the conference.” Emily fails to mention the ideological screening process an attendee must complete prior to their acceptance to the conference.

Attendees are vetted using long-form questions prior to registration. Apparently myself and my fellow conservative friends were good enough at masking our ideology in order to be given the go ahead to attend the conference. A fellow conservative was not willing to hide his ideals for the chance to attend; he was not admitted.

While there I kept my mouth closed and my eyes and ears open, limiting my responses (that were hardly responses but merely tweets of direct conference quotes) to Twitter....