Posted on 06/01/2022 1:41:17 AM PDT by ChipMarne
For the third time in the past six years, the Drake University Student Senate chose to not recognize the Turning Point USA chapter as an official club.
Students at the private Iowa university have tried since 2016 to get official recognition for their fiscally conservative, pro-capitalism club.
Recognition of the club allows it to reserve space on campus, apply for funding for events and have financial accounts to hold money fundraised.
“I think everyone has a right to their beliefs, but I do think there is a point where those beliefs do become harmful,” one member said during the latest rejection of the club. Another said the conservative group “mak[es] people on campus uncomfortable and frightened for their safety” and consequently deemed it wrong to approve such an organization.
A current TPUSA employee who previously attended Drake before transferring to University of Iowa said the school is opposed to free speech.
“It’s impossible to deny that Drake University is opposed to free speech—if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have spent the last 6 years battling with college students trying to establish a TPUSA Chapter,” Amy Samuel told The College Fix through a spokesperson.
“I can speak from personal experience in saying that the discrimination I faced as a Drake student, in part, led me to pursue my passion for protecting free speech on college campuses here at Turning Point,” the senior field administrative director stated. “So at the very least, I hope that this situation will help create more courageous conservative leaders who are willing to stand up against authoritarian tyranny.”
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How tolerant of them.
I am a university graduate but I see today’s higher education as intolerant and destructive.
Who should go into massive college student debt to be brainwashed by Leftists?
America needs young people who can be constructive and build a future in which everyone can benefit and get along.
College used to be open to all ideas. Today, it is full of narcissist screamers who yell, “You can’t say that because it hurts my feelings and I don’t agree with you.”
What kind of country is run by such spoiled brats?
The answer is, “a country in moral and practical decline.”
Look around. America is getting to the point it cannot function. It is in complete, self-destruct mode. The country cannot now accomplish the basics of a successful nation.
This breakdown is deliberate and must be stopped.
“I think everyone has a right to their beliefs, but I don't think anyone has a right to their beliefs” one member said during the latest rejection of the club.
Fixed for accuracy.
Better to be off-campus and not beholden to the Marxists.
When I was in college back in the Dark Ages (70’s), they told us that the Greek letter frats were originally formed as secret societies where you could discuss issues that were forbidden by TPTB. We never thought that there would ever be a need for something like that again. But, it looks like here we are. The New Puritanism.
My alma mater.
Duck Frake.
They need to sue, get it to Supreme Court if nothing else.
“I think everyone has a right to their beliefs, but I don’t think anyone has a right to their beliefs” one member said during the latest rejection of the club.
Fixed for accuracy.”
I would add that “everyone has a right to their beliefs, so long as the people in charge decide what those beliefs should be.” This is similar to Stalin’s view that it did not matter how many people vote but it does matter who counts the votes.
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