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The University of Virginia says it will not recognize a conservative club because the organization limits its membership to those who affirm conservative principles. In a letter on Friday, lawyers for Young America’s Foundation said the university’s policy is both “unconstitutional” and a violation of Virginia state law. “A pro-choice club may deny leadership positions to pro-life students, and a gun control group may determine that it does not wish to extend membership to NRA members,” Casey Mattox, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, wrote in the letter. “Yet, by the terms of this policy — and its application...

RANCHO COTATE HIGH Students protest gay rights 2 counterprotesters arrested during lunchtime rally outside Rohnert Park high school Thursday, April 7, 2005 By ROBERT DIGITALE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Under the watchful eye of police officers and media cameras, the student leader of Rancho Cotate High School's controversial Conservative Club led an off-campus protest Wednesday against gay rights. Tim Bueler, 18, president of the club and the related High School Conservative Clubs of America, joined about a dozen protesters in a lunchtime demonstration across the street from the Rohnert Park school. Bueler, who last year drew nationwide attention after starting the...

Activist Claims School Censored Protest Against Homosexual Event By Mary Rettig April 12, 2005 (AgapePress) - Members of a high school conservative group in California are saying their First Amendment rights were violated when they tried to protest an upcoming pro-homosexual "Day of Silence" event. Tim Bueler, a senior at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, is the founder and president of the High School Conservative Clubs of America. Last week the Rancho Cotate High School Conservative Club participated in a demonstration called the "Day of Truth." The conservative protest was designed to counter a pro-homosexual observance known as...

Conservative students around the country can connect with others who are like-minded at the new High School Conservative Clubs of America forum. We want to develop a nationwide network of students who will hold teachers accountable for their liberal bias. Please visit our site, and send any public high school students you know to join up! Thanks. Jonathan HSCCA

"If I changed school policy every time a letter came in asking me to change school policy, we would be making curriculum and policy based on every letter that came in."

HUDSON -- After a legal defense team took an interest in the new student Conservative Club's claims of censorship, Hudson High School is now investigating some teaching practices for potential biases and inconsistencies. However, the school will not budge on allowing students to advertise a controversial conservative Web site, said Principal John Stapelfeld. English and social studies teachers have been asked to make sure all sides of an issue are represented in materials and teaching, Stapelfeld said. "We are in the process of reviewing the curricula to assure we can be better balanced, if we have, in fact, not been...

School targets lesson 'biases': Principal says he wants balanced talk on the issues By Carolyn Kessel Stewart / Daily News Staff Thursday, February 17, 2005 HUDSON -- After a legal defense team took an interest in the new student Conservative Club's claims of censorship, Hudson High School is now investigating some teaching practices for potential biases and inconsistencies. However, the school will not budge on allowing students to advertise a controversial conservative Web site, said Principal John Stapelfeld. English and social studies teachers have been asked to make sure all sides of an issue are represented in materials and teaching,...

School targets lesson 'biases': Principal says he wants balanced talk on the issues By Carolyn Kessel Stewart / Daily News Staff Thursday, February 17, 2005 HUDSON -- After a legal defense team took an interest in the new student Conservative Club's claims of censorship, Hudson High School is now investigating some teaching practices for potential biases and inconsistencies. However, the school will not budge on allowing students to advertise a controversial conservative Web site, said Principal John Stapelfeld. English and social studies teachers have been asked to make sure all sides of an issue are represented in materials and teaching,...

Making his way through Framingham High School's construction zone, Dan Devlen heads from the old, dark Flyer News television studio to its future: a new, more expansive headquarters in another school wing. The school's administrative media director said the new location will give the television production and live morning news program more breathing room, with a new studio, a classroom and office space. "I like to say that we've been working in the Millennium Falcon of Han Solo, and now we're moving into the Enterprise," Devlen said, describing the move to larger digs. "All brand new and nice, and I'm...

A Marine accused (Washington Times) Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano could face the death penalty if convicted of charges made against him last week. The charges? Premeditated murder. The facts? He shot two suspected terrorists during a mission in Iraq. The case is frought with second-guessing, and could be a disaster for future combat operations if the charges aren't dropped. April 2004 was the cruelest month in the Iraq insurgency. It was when the assault on Fallujah took place, as did significant action in Najaf and Sadr City. About one-third of the 147 U.S. servicemen killed that month were...

“Liberalism” is the cancer of our time! Tim Bueler What is happening to the country that my grandfather loved; that used to have a fighting spirit and supported our troops? What has happened to this once unquestionably moral Christian nation? The core of America’s problems is the mentality that produces people who aid and abet the enemy, stabs our fighting men in the back, turns our police into “criminals,” and criminals into victims. We have become slaves to the liberal mindset: that a woman has the “right” to murder her child through abortion; that homosexuals have a “right” to get...

Lawyer joins fray in Hudson poster snit By Carolyn Kessel Stewart / News Staff Writer Friday, February 11, 2005 HUDSON -- A legal team known for supporting right wing causes is working to lift the high school's ban of a controversial Web site launched by the recently formed student conservative club. The Pacific Justice Institute of California has asked Hudson High School Principal John Stapelfeld to reverse his decision to ban the Conservative Club from citing the High School Conservative Clubs of America Web site on its posters. Stapelfeld has said the Web site promotes violence, because of its reference...

Conservative teens say school is biased against them By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | February 10, 2005 Soft-spoken and casually dressed, Chris Bowler does not look the part of a political firebrand. But his new conservative club has ignited considerable controversy at Hudson High School. To advertise the club's first meeting in December, Bowler put up a poster that included the website of a national organization for high school conservative clubs. The page includes links to videos of beheadings by Iraqi insurgents, saying the links are meant to show what terrorists can do. The posters immediately drew administrators' ire. Within...

Arrogant censorshipDavid Limbaugh (archive) February 11, 2005 | Print | Send An incident at Hudson High School in Massachusetts provides an object lesson in the occasional arrogance of liberal bias. A group of students decided to form a conservative club as "a counterweight" to the majority political viewpoint at the school. Student Chris Bowler put up posters to publicize the club's first meeting in December. Within hours, school administrators reportedly removed the posters because they contained a link to the Website of High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA), a national organization for high school conservative clubs. HSCCA's Website included links...

Recently, a group of Hudson High School students and parents have charged that some teachers at HHHS, specifically in the Social Studies department, are teaching with a liberal bias and stifling the conservative students' opinions. In addition, these students have criticized the administration for violating their commitment to allow students their First Amendment rights. This issue began with the creation of a Conservative Club at Hudson High School. The co-presidents of the new club, Chris Bowler and James Mellilo, hung posters around the school associating themselves with the High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA), and included the Web site,...

<p>Students at a Maryland high school known for its environmental activism have encountered several setbacks in starting up a young Republicans' club at the school.</p> <p>Five students at Sparrows Point High School in northern Baltimore County say school administrators and teachers have intentionally delayed their efforts to form a Teenage Republican Club because they don't want to have a conservative club at a liberal school.</p>

Being assigned Michael Moore's liberal bestseller "Stupid White Men" for an English course or listening to a professor's liberal convictions during a geometry lecture are just two incidents that motivated conservative students at Napa Valley College to mobilize this year. "It's a response to the liberal environment we are in," said Stephen Wolfe, the 21-year-old founder of the Conservative Club, one of a growing number of conservative college groups that are showing up across the country. The local club's inaugural event was a satirical sale of waffles and pancakes in honor of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., while the theme from...

Conservative student finds some allies By Richard Halstead, IJ reporter A 17-year-old Sonoma high school student who has received national publicity because of his conservative political views received a warm reception from a group of Marin Republican women yesterday. Tim Bueler - who has called his teachers at Rancho Cotate High School "liberal traitors" and angered minority students there with inflammatory language - told the 30 members of Marin Republican Women Federated who turned out to hear him speak that they felt like family. Bueler, dressed yesterday in a black suit and white open-collared shirt, contends that teachers at Rancho...

Student fights for the right to be 'right' Conservative teen shakes up campus Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Tim Bueler, like many cocksure 17-year-olds, is strident in expressing his political beliefs. And to him, the Republican Party leans too far to the left. That was the spark that launched his Conservative Club at Rancho Cotate High School in the Sonoma County town of Rohnert Park and ignited two months of rhetorical ugliness on campus. It also put him on the conservative talk show circuit, including an appearance Thursday on Fox television's "The O'Reilly Factor." It all started on Dec. 3,...

Up dates Conservative Club update — Rancho Cotati High School, Rohnert Park, California Report by Tim Bueler After Mr. Connich resigned from advising the Conservative Club, citing that other teachers were creating a “hostile” work environment for him, Gail Eagan, District Director of Student Services, stepped in as our interim advisor. The following week the Conservative Club meet, and everything was OK, until ASB (Associated Student Body) decided to “reevaluate” our club status. They claimed concern that most of the money that our group was receiving to support us against the excesses of school administrators (and now, the excesses of...