UVA Under Scrutiny for Blocking Conservative Student Groups
“Our students’ speech and association rights are being violated by administrators at the University of Virginia.”
This problem comes up at different schools several times a year and always goes in one direction.
The Daily Caller reports:
Is UVA Breaking The Law By Rejecting Conservative Group On Campus?
The University of Virginia is breaking the law by prohibiting a conservative group from opening a chapter on its campus, the group alleged Friday.
Conservative nonprofit Young America’s Foundation and legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom say that the school is breaking Virginia law by prohibiting Young Americans for Freedom, which requires its members to hold certain political views, from existing.
“Our students’ speech and association rights are being violated by administrators at the University of Virginia. Our demand is simple – recognize the YAF chapter and change this illegal policy,” said Spencer Brown, spokesman for YAF. “Thomas Jefferson founded UVA; he also authored the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The irony is not lost that it is UVA that is violating its students’ rights.”
Ty Zirkle, UVA student council’s vice president for organizations, told YAF-UVA that the group cannot hand out group membership based on political affiliation.
But ADF cited VA Code Ann. 23.1-400, which states that political and religious student groups can pick leaders and members, as well as policies, according to its political or religious goal and can decide “that only persons committed to that mission should conduct such activities.”
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I find it fascinating that the left wing and the faculty never think that there may be a day of reckoning. That the immature behavior of these petty tyrants, the tendency towards college fascism, may not be discovered and dealt with. That it will be forgotten by the victims of their bizarre beliefs.