Free Speech on Campus - Page 9

A conservative student senator at Colorado State University, who is black, was kicked out of a student government meeting for wearing “blackface” as part of his Halloween costume mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A column published in Forbes on Wednesday makes the case that the Chinese government is attempting to undermine free speech on Western college campuses.

The student government at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, recently approved an “equity fee” seeking to impose an additional cost of $240 on each student in order to fund a new program aiming to support black and “marginalized” students at the private university.

A teaching assistant at North Carolina State University compared conservativism to “white supremacy” in feedback written on a conservative student’s writing assignment. The TA’s notes on his grading of the student’s work including stating that black Conservative Candace Owens promotes “New Racism.”

Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough argued that historically black colleges succeed because they don’t enroll “racist” students.

Students at Williams College are boycotting the English Department arguing that the curriculum prioritizes white authors over non-white authors.

Students are calling on Harvard Law to offer “right-of-center” legal clinics, as they argue the school lacks intellectually diverse offerings for conservative law students.

Conservative writer Victor Davis Hanson is concerned about the quality of college graduates being produced by American universities and colleges in the modern era, who he describes as “woke and broke.”

Georgetown University announced last week that it will launch a $400,000 slavery reparations fund that will benefit descendants of slaves once owned by the university.

Drake University has denied recognizing conservative group Turning Point USA as an official student group on campus, while approving a communist student group called Drake Comrades as worthy of official recognition by the school.

The University of Washington has revoked the official club status of its College Republicans chapter in response to student protests and a request from the College Republican National Committee.

A student at the University of Michigan approached a group of Turning Point USA students and activists and began stealing the entirety of the organization’s supplies — even the cookies and hot chocolate — before dismantling the group’s recruiting table. The incident was caught on video.

A presenter at a workshop hosted by Maryville University made the case that “cultural appropriation” on Halloween amounts to “cultural genocide.”

The editorial board at the University of Florida published a column this last week that cautioned students against wearing “problematic” Halloween costumes.

Dickinson College officials created a set of Halloween costume guidelines that are designed to stop students from engaging in “cultural appropriation.”

A recent poll revealed that over half of college students want to see their peers punished for wearing “offensive” Halloween costumes. The number is even higher at Ivy League and California State schools.

A student at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) destroyed a Turning Point USA sign promoting the United States Constitution on Monday. The incident was caught on video.

Former Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to discuss the rise of “ideological fascism” on college campuses. Dr. Piper decried the “thought control” rampant on campuses across the nation.

In a blow to the leftist stranglehold on speech policies on American campuses, the University of Michigan announced this week that it will be shutting down its “bias response team,” which accepted complaints from students for minor speech offenses by their peers.

The student government at Trinity University refused to fund a planned event featuring conservative writer Heather Mac Donald, citing concerns over her criticisms of “social justice” dogmas.

Emma Sulkowicz, who is best known as “Mattress Girl” for her “performance art” protests aimed at administrators at Columbia University, may have turned over a new leaf including a willingness to speak to conservatives about their ideas.

A leftist student at the University at Buffalo was caught on camera ripping down posters for an upcoming campus event featuring conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza.

Students at the University of Pennsylvania never got the chance to hear former director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan speak at an event scheduled at the school on Wednesday because the speaking engagement was canceled in response to student protesters who created a loud disturbance.

Michigan State University Professor Saleem Alhabash is apologizing for sending a slur-filled survey riddled with racist and homophobic language to students. Professor Alhabash claims that his intent for sending out such a survey was to show students that “these messages do unfortunately exist.”

A guest lecturer at Ball State University recently made the case that using proper grammar is a symptom of America’s “white supremacist” culture.

On Wednesday evening, Yale University hosted Soleil Ho, a podcaster that argues that American food culture is racist.

Last week while speaking at a Turning Point USA chapter in Illinois, my photo was used in a flyer designed by campus leftists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Under text that said: “NOW HIRING CONSERVATIVE MINORITIES,” the poster said that because I’m a black conservative, I “lack dignity, shame, and charisma.”

Colorado State University (CSU) student and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Gabby Brown told Breitbart News that leftists had tried to get her group’s event featuring TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Kimberly Guilfoyle banned for “creating unsafe spaces” on campus. Brown spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview for the show’s weekly TPUSA campus report.

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is investigating a photo showcasing an apparent “cowboys and (illegal) aliens” costume party held by students. Campus free speech advocate FIRE says the investigation should be dropped on First Amendment grounds.

Harvard campus activists demanded an apology from the student newspaper for the basic journalistic practice of seeking out a comment from ICE for a story concerning a campus protest against the agency.

The student government at Texas State University introduced a resolution to condemn the school’s Young Conservatives of Texas student group for hosting a “coming out” event for conservatives, which coincided with the LGBT community’s “National Coming Out Day.”

Faculty members at Purdue University have continued their push against the installation of a Chick-fil-A location on campus despite the administration’s firm rejection of their demands in September.

Students at the University of New Hampshire were caught on video tearing down Turning Point USA posters on Sunday and Monday. A leftist student said “I hate you and I hope you die” to one of the members of the school’s TPUSA group after being approached about tearing down the displays.

A student at the University of Minnesota Duluth was captured on video admitting to tearing down Turning Point USA posters, which read, “I love America.”

A policy buried in the Furman University handbook claims that students can be punished for wearing offensive Halloween costumes.

A veteran and student at Arizona State University filed a complaint with school officials, accusing a professor of discriminating against him over the perspective he developed during his military service.