The “Conservative Club” seeks the affiliation. If you read the descriptions the university provides for each club, you’ll note that there is no such blurb for the Conservative Club. That does not connote an organization that is “fully functioning” as you assert. While it is certainly the right of a private university to make a decision like the one APU has made, it is also the right of donors, alumni, students, and the larger community, to challenge that decision in relation to the university’s own stated goals. This is especially true in light of the Left’s “Long March” into the administration, curriculum, and teaching in our educational institutions. The Left’s national subversion of academia is an existential threat to liberty and the civil society. When it appears at a conservative institution like APU, it’s a clarion.
From the article: Ashley Blackwell, the would-be chair of the chapter, is currently the chair of a generic conservative club at APU and wants to formally affiliate with YAF.
The school said no official affiliation with YAF because of this: Are you tired of liberal ideas dominating your campus? Are you tired of liberal and Marxist professors indoctrinating your classmates? Do you want to advance conservatism?
From the schools website:
Service Clubs (many this is just one)
APU Young Conservatives
So the conservative club wants to officially align themselves with the YAF, the school said no, because the YAF trashes higher education.
It’s understandable.
Yes, there is a fully functional recognized conservative club on campus.