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South Dakota Legislature passes intellectual diversity bill

GRAHAM PIRO - STAFF REPORTER •MARCH 14, 2019

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Sponsor says she’s ‘thrilled’ with passage

After multiple legislative failures, the South Dakota Legislature has passed a bill to promote intellectual diversity on campus. HB 1087 is on its way to the governor’s desk after the House passed the Senate-amended bill, 51-12, on Tuesday.

“We are thrilled that South Dakota has become the first state in the nation to adopt legislation requiring universities to promote intellectual diversity and not simply be dominated by the left,” Rep. Sue Peterson, a sponsor of the bill, told The College Fix in an email.

She called this leftist domination “a national epidemic which has undermined the education of thousands of students and fueled out-of-control political correctness at the expense of hard-working taxpayers.”

South Dakota is not the first state to adopt this type of legislation, however. Colorado and Tennessee both passed similar legislation in 2017.

Of the 12 representatives who voted against the bill, nine were Democrats, and three were Republicans. Seven representatives were excused from voting.

The South Dakota Board of Regents had adopted new policies last year intended to promote free expression and debate on campus. Peterson had previously expressed to The Fix that she wanted to lock in these reforms via legislation.

The bill forbids any public institution of higher education from discriminating “against any student or student organization based on the content or viewpoint of their expressive activity,” according to its language.[...?]

MORE: Push to support intellectual diversity underway in South Dakota

4/5/19: This article was updated to reflect that both Colorado and Tennessee passed legislation protecting speech on campus in 2017, prior to South Dakota’s bill....

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Though the group openly threatened to “reclaim” the campus unless its administration acceded to its demands, the African/Black Student Alliance at the University of California, Santa Cruz never struck the university with additional campus takeovers even though administrators have apparently failed to meet the group’s ultimatum.

The fall semester took place evidently without administrators capitulating to the remaining demands, and without the activist students taking over more buildings in protest.

As The College Fix previously reported, last spring the African/Black Student Alliance at UC Santa Cruz presented the school with numerous [4] demands and threatened that they would engage in “more reclamations” if the university did not meet every one of the demands. University administrators had already agreed to meet four of the group’s seven requests after the students occupied Santa Cruz’s Kerr Hall, among them the painting of an African-American-themed house in “pan-Afrikan” colors and forcing incoming students to attend diversity training.< ... [huge code cut] Santa Cruz’s African/Black Student Alliance, African Student Union, and the Black Men’s Alliance also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

After the occupation of Kerr Hall, Chancellor Blumenthal agreed to give all black and Caribbean-identified students a 4-year housing guarantee to live in the Rosa Parks African American Themed House; bring back the building’s lounge; paint its exterior the “Pan-Afrikan colors” of red, green and black; and force all new incoming students to go through a mandatory diversity competency training.

At the time, Blumenthal condemned the takeover of university buildings.

“We support students exercising their First Amendment rights,” he said in a statement, “but we do not endorse taking over buildings, which displaces university employees doing important work in support of the very students who entered the building.”

UPDATE:This post has been updated with an additional comment from UC Santa Cruz spokesman Scott Hernandez-Jason.

MORE: Black student group at UC Santa Cruz threatens more campus takeovers if additional demands not me

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University of California Santa Cruz administrators recently agreed to meet to all four demands lodged by a black student group who commandeered a campus building and would not leave until their conditions were met.

But in addition to the four initial stipulations, the group made three other demands to the university, and it has warned UC Santa Cruz that it has four months to comply with these demands or “more Reclamations” will result.

After three days of occupation by students of Kerr Hall, Chancellor George Blumenthal agreed to give all black and Caribbean-identified students a 4-year housing guarantee to live in the Rosa Parks African American Themed House; bring back the building’s lounge; paint its exterior the “Pan-Afrikan colors” of red, green and black; and force all new incoming students to go through a mandatory diversity competency training.

“The student demonstrators raised a number of issues with campus leaders, issues we fundamentally agree upon,” Blumenthal stated in a May 4 memo to the campus community announcing the concessions. “Students from historically underrepresented communities deal with real challenges on campus and in the community. These difficulties include things that many people take for granted, such as finding housing or even just a sense of community.”

Yet the African/Black Student Alliance also demanded three additional provisions from UC Santa Cruz within its initial “Reclamation Statement,” posted on the website of the Afrikan Black Coalition. The group stipulated that if by Fall Quarter 2017 the university does not provide “detailed plans” on how to fulfill its new demands, “there will be more Reclamations.”

“Reclamation” is how the student group referred to its aggressivethree-day takeover of Kerr Hall.

The alliance’s three additional demands are that the university purchase a property “to serve as a low income housing cooperative for historically disadvantaged students,” that the university “allocate $100,000” for Santa Cruz’s “SOMeCA” student organization support department, and that the university create either a Black Studies department or a Black Studies Minor or Major.

The group promised that, if their demands are not met, UC Santa Cruz will “force [them] to have to take what [they] know to be in [their] best interest to Reclaim.”

The alliance’s list of demands concludes with a quote from Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Panther Party and a convicted murderer: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom; It is our duty to win; We must love each other and support each other; We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Blumenthal, in his memo to the campus community, had denounced taking over buildings as a means of protest, saying it displaced the campus community. It is unknown how campus leaders will respond to this latest threat.

A spokesman for UC Santa Cruz did not respond to a question from The College Fix on whether there will be any disciplinary action against the students who forcibly took over Kerr Hall. He only told The Fix that “safety” is the school’s top priority.

As for the student demonstrators, they reject the term “occupation” to describe their “reclamation” actions, claiming: “We are pushing back against the language of ‘occupation’ in recognition of the largely white-centric and fairly recent ‘Occupy Movement.’ We are pushing back against the language of ‘occupation’ in recognition of the very real settler occupations that are hxstorical [sic] and ongoing, such as the European colonization and occupation of ‘The Americas,’ as well as the current context of occupation in Palestine.”

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Austin Yack

Austin Yack (Summer 2015)

2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow Austin Yack worked at The Hill. He is a recent magna cum laude graduate of University of California-Santa Barbara. He is currently a William F. Buckley Political Journalism Fellow at National Review.

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Alexandra DeSanctis (Summer 2014)

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Blake Seitz (Summer 2014)

2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow Blake Seitz worked at The Washington Examiner. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 2014. He is currently an assistant editor for The Washington Free Beacon.

Adam O’Neal

Adam O’Neal (Fall 2013)

2013 fall College Fix journalism fellow Adam O’Neal worked at RealClearPolitics. Today he is an assistant features editor for The Wall Street Journal editorial page. He graduated from the University of California-Irvine in 2014. His previous editorial experience includes working for ROME REPORTS TV news agency and as a producer for the Los Angeles-based KFI AM 640.

Ryan Lovelace

Ryan Lovelace (Summer 2013)

2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow Ryan Lovelace worked at The Weekly Standard. He graduated from Butler University in 2014. He currently reports for the Washington Examiner. His previous editorial experience includes the National Review Institute and Daily Caller.

Kyle Peterson

Kyle Peterson (Summer 2010)

2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow Kyle Peterson worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated from Iowa State University in 2010. He currently works for The Wall Street Journal as its associate editorial features editor. His previous editorial experience includes serving as managing editor of The American Spectator and reporting for National Review Online.

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Stephanie Wang (Summer 2012)

2012 summer College Fix journalism fellow Stephanie Wang worked at The Daily Caller. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012. She currently works for The Washington Free Beacon. Her previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Michigan Review.

Andrew Stiles

Andrew Stiles (Summer 2010)

2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow Andrew Stiles worked at The Hill. He graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2009. He currently reports for Heat Street. His previous editorial experience includes reporting for National Review and The Washington Free Beacon.

Crystal Hill

Crystal Hill (Fall 2014)

2014 fall College Fix journalism fellow Crystal Hill worked at The Hill. She graduated from Indiana University in 2014. She currently works for The Associated Press. Her previous editorial experience includes writing for the Indiana Daily Student, interning at The Washington Times and co-creating The Grapevine.

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Joe DiSipio

Fall 2016 College Fix/Student Free Press Association journalism fellow Joe DiSipio attends the University of Notre Dame. This fall he is an intern for The Hill on behalf of The College Fix/Student Free Press Association. He studies economics and is a member of the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy. He also serves as an editor of Notre Dame’s The Scholastic, the country’s oldest continuously published collegiate publication.

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Kirkland An (Summer 2016)

2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow Kirkland An attends Wheaton College (IL). In the summer of 2016 he interned for USA Today on behalf of The College Fix/Student Free Press Association. He is currently editor in chief of The Wheaton Record campus newspaper and a freelance reporter for The Washington Post. He has also held an editorial position at the Chicago Tribune.

Diana McElfresh

Diana McElfresh (Summer 2016)

2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow Diana McElfresh attends St. Bonaventure University. In the summer of 2016 she interned for The Hill on behalf of The College Fix/Student Free Press Association. She currently reports for the Olean Times Herald and also serves as managing editor of The Bona Venture campus newspaper.

Conor Beck

Conor Beck (Summer 2016)

2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow Conor Beck attends Rice University in Houston, Texas. In the summer of 2016 he interned for The Weekly Standard on behalf of The College Fix/Student Free Press Association. His reporting has also appeared on LifeNews.

Jake Henry

Jake Henry (Summer 2016)

2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow Jake Henry attends Point Loma Nazarene University. This summer he interned at the Daily Caller on behalf of The College Fix/Student Free Press Association. He is currently Evening Assistant Producer for KPBS News and a freelancer for USA Today College. He has also held an editorial position at The Victorville Daily Press.

Diana Stancy

Diana Stancy (Summer 2016)

2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow Diana Stancy is a graduate of Elon University, where she double majored in journalism and political science. She is currently a Communications Fellow for the Network of enlightened Women. Prior to that she reported for Conservative Review. In the summer of 2016 she interned at The Washington Examiner on behalf of The College Fix/Student Free Press Association. Previously, she interned at The Daily Signal and The Burlington Times-News.

Ellie Potter

Ellie Potter (Spring 2016)

2016 spring College Fix journalism fellow Ellie Potter graduated from the University of Richmond, where she majored in journalism. She is currently a reporter for The Dickinson Press in western North Dakota covering local government, healthcare and K-12. As a College Fix intern she worked at Real Clear Politics. She has also interned at the Washington Examiner and WTVR CBS 6 in Richmond, as well as at Richmond Magazine. On campus she served as the Online Lead Writer for Forum Magazine and wrote for the school paper, The Collegian.

Anthony Gockowski

Anthony Gockowski (Fall 2015)

2015 fall College Fix journalism fellow Anthony Gockowski worked at the Daily Caller. He graduated in 2015 with a philosophy degree from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is currently an investigative reporter for Campus Reform. His previous editorial experience includes The Intercollegiate Review and The Catholic Spirit.

David Hookstead

David Hookstead (Fall 2015)

2015 fall College Fix journalism fellow David Hookstead worked at the Daily Caller. He graduated in 2015 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is currently a reporter for the Daily Caller.

Nathan Courter

Nathan Courter (Summer 2015)

Nathan is an Agostinelli Fellow at National Review for the summer of 2015. Nathan graduated from Indiana University Kokomo in May 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Today he is enrolled in Navy Officer Candidate School and upon completion will be commissioned as an Ensign, United States Navy.

Andrew Desiderio

Andrew Desiderio (Summer 2015)

2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow Andrew Desiderio worked at RealClearPolitics. He is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in Italian language and literature at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. He has also served internships at BBC, Mediaite and The Daily Beast.

Mairead McArdle

Mairead McArdle (Summer 2015)

2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow Mairead McArdle worked at USA Today. She graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in 2015, where she majored in philosophy with a focus on political science. She currently reports for CNS News. Her previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Campus Dirt student newspaper.

Ben Parker

Ben Parker (Summer 2015)

2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow Ben Parker worked at The Weekly Standard. He’s pursuing a degree in politics, philosophy and economics, with a minor in Russian culture and history, at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal for 2016. He worked for Congressman Frank Wolf in 2013 and Congresswoman Barbara Comstock in 2014.

Brooke A. Rogers

Brooke A. Rogers (Summer 2015)

Brooke was an Agostinelli Fellow at National Review for the summer of 2015. She is a former co-editor of the Wingspan student newspaper at Laramie County Community College in Wyoming, where she studied mass media. She currently works at National Review as an assistant to the publisher.

Nathan Rubbelke

Nathan Rubbelke (Summer 2015)

2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow Nathan Rubbelke worked at The Washington Examiner. He is currently an investigative and enterprise staff reporter for The College Fix. Prior to that he worked as a county government reporter for the The Commercial Review in Portland, Indiana. He double majored in political science and sociology at Saint Louis University. His previous editorial experience includes interning with Red Alert Politics and the National Journalism Center.

Derek Draplin

Derek Draplin (Spring 2015)

2015 spring College Fix journalism fellow Derek Draplin worked at The Detroit News. He graduated from the University of Michigan and is currently a correspondent for Michigan Capital Confidential and an associate editor at The Daily Caller. His previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief and publisher of The Michigan Review.

Marieke van der Vaart

Marieke van der Vaart (Spring 2015)

2015 spring Agostinelli fellow Marieke van der Vaart worked at USA Today. She graduated from Hillsdale College in 2012. She currently works for Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Her previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Hillsdale Collegianand interning at The Washington Times.

Aaron Bandler

Aaron Bandler (Summer 2014)

2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow Aaron Bandler worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated in 2015 from California Polytechnic State University with a degree in journalism. He currently writes for The Daily Wire, and his previous editorial experience includes contributing to Townhall Media.

Michael Cipriano

Michael Cipriano (Summer 2014)

2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow Michael Cipriano worked at RealClearPolitics. He graduated from American University in 2015. He currently works as a reporter for FDA News.

Caroline Craddock

Caroline Craddock (Summer 2014)

Caroline graduated from King’s College and interned at National Review in the summer of 2014 as an Agostinelli fellow. A Colorado native, she ranked nationally in speech and debate tournaments. She currently works as Country Director (USA) for the non-profit international petition platform CitizenGO.

Vivian Hughbanks

Vivian Hughbanks (Summer 2014)

2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow Vivian Hughbanks worked at The Hill. She is a graduate Hillsdale College, and edited The Collegian and the Hillsdale Daily News. She is currently the communications director for The Philos Project, which promotes positive Christian engagement in the Middle East.

Ben Smith

Ben Smith (Summer 2014)

2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow Ben Smith worked at The American Spectator. He graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2014. He currently works as a digital media specialist for the Washington Examiner.

José R. González

José R. González (Spring 2014)

2014 spring College Fix journalism fellow José R. González worked at RealClearPolitics. He graduated from Texas State University in 2013. His previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of the San Jacinto Times and copy editor at the Victoria Advocate.

Dan Santella

Dan Santella (Fall 2013)

2013 fall College Fix journalism fellow Dan Santella worked at The Monitor. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2008. He currently works for KELO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Spencer Amaral

Spencer Amaral (Summer 2013)

2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow Spencer Amaral worked at The American Spectator. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2014. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Dallas Theological Seminary. His previous editorial experience includes interning forThe Daily Caller.

Nathaniel Botwinick

Nathaniel Botwinick (Summer 2013)

Nathaniel served as an Agostinelli fellow at National Review in the summer of 2013. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in history in 2011. He is a two-time NCAA All-American in fencing. He currently works at a law firm in New York.

Zenon Evans

Zenon Evans (Summer 2013)

2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow Zenon Evans worked at Reason. He graduated from Ohio State University in 2013. His previous editorial experience includes as editor-in-chief of The Rubicon. He currently works in San Francisco in the tech field and as an entrepreneur.

Noah Glyn

Noah Glyn (Summer 2013)

Noah was an Agostinelli intern at National Review in the summer of 2013. He is an alumnus of Rutgers University, where he wrote a column in The Daily Targum and contributed to numerous other publications. He currently works at the New Jersey Office of Management and Budget.

Lindsey Grudnicki

Lindsey Grudnicki (Summer 2013)

Lindsey, of Ashland University, interned at National Review in the summer of 2013 as part of our Agostinelli Program. She graduated from Ashland in 2013. She currently works as an editorial assistant for Minerva Rising, a literary journal that publishes creative writing by women.

Jimmy Hemphill

Jimmy Hemphill (Summer 2013)

2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow Jimmy Hemphill worked at The Washington Examiner. He is a student at the College of William and Mary. His previous editorial experience includes writing for the Virginia Informer.

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (Summer 2013)

Andrew served as an Agostinelli fellow at National Review in the summer of 2013. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in journalism in 2012. Today he works as digital press secretary of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Charles Rollet

Charles Rollet (Summer 2013)

2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow Charles Rollet worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated from Northwestern University in 2014. He currently works for the Phnom Penh Post. His previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief for the Northwestern Chronicle.

Alexander Sherbany

Alexander Sherbany (Summer 2013)

Alexander worked as an Agostinelli fellow at National Review in the summer of 2013. He is a 2011 graduate of Harvard College, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Political Review. He is currently a rising third-year student at Yale Law School, where he is an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a board member of the Yale FederalistSociety.

Laura Byrne

Laura Byrne (Spring 2013)

2013 spring College Fix journalism fellow Laura Byrne worked at Red Alert Politics. She graduated from Tulane University in 2012. She currently works for the City of Mobile, Ala. Her previous editorial experience includes interning for The Daily Caller.

Samantha Schroeder

Samantha Schroeder (Fall 2012)

2012 fall College Fix journalism fellow Samantha Schroeder worked at The Daily Caller. She graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2012. She is currently director of external affairs at the Foreign Policy Initiative.

Julie Ershadi

Julie Ershadi (Summer 2012)

2012 summer College Fix journalism fellow Julie Ershadi worked at The Hill. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011. She is currently a freelance journalist. Her previous editorial experience includes interning at Human Events and Roll Call.

Emily Schrader

Emily Schrader (Summer 2012)

2012 summer College Fix journalism fellow Emily Schrader worked at The Weekly Standard. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2012. She currently works for StandWithUs. Her previous editorial experience includes contributing to The Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel.

Josh Fatzick

Josh Fatzick (Spring 2012)

2012 spring College Fix journalism fellow Josh Fatzick worked at The Hill. He graduated from Coastal Carolina University in 2014. He currently works for The Daily Caller. His previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Chanticleer.

Vishal Ganesan

Vishal Ganesan (Fall 2011)

2011 fall College Fix journalism fellow Vishal Ganesan worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 2011. He is currently a J.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law. His previous editorial experience includes writing and editing for the Desert Lamp.

Kyle Blaine

Kyle Blaine (Summer 2011)

2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow Kyle Blaine worked at Reason. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2013. He currently works for BuzzFeed. His previous editorial experience includes serving as news editor of The Vanderbilt Hustler and with ABC News.

Christopher Goins

Christopher Goins (Summer 2011)

2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow Christopher Goins worked at The Hill. He graduated from La Salle University in 2010. He is currently assistant managing editor of ASC Services, and he also writes for a variety of publications. His previous editorial experience includes writing for MarylandReporter.com, The American Spectator, CNSNews.com and Politic365.

Kate Havard

Kate Havard (Summer 2011)

2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow Kate Havard worked at The Weekly Standard. She graduated from St. John’s College in 2012. She currently works for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Her previous editorial experience includes reporting for The Washington Post.

Amanda Seitz

Amanda Seitz (Summer 2011)

2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow Amanda Seitz worked for The Daily Caller. She graduated from Miami University in 2012. She currently works for Cox Media Group Ohio. Her previous editorial experience includes interning at The Cincinnati Enquirer and Wausau Daily Herald.

Tray Smith

Tray Smith (Summer 2011)

2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow Tray Smith worked at The Washington Examiner. He graduated from the University of Alabama. His previous editorial experience includes serving as opinion editor of The Crimson White.

Alicia M. Cohn

Alicia M. Cohn (Spring 2011)

2011 spring College Fix journalism fellow Alicia M. Cohn worked at The Hill. She graduated from Illinois’s Wheaton College in 2009. She currently works for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Her previous editorial experience includes writing for The Washington Examiner.

Claire M. Cousino

Claire M. Cousino (Summer 2010)

2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow Claire M. Cousino worked at The Washington Times. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. She currently works for Autocam. Her previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of the Irish Rover.

Peyton Miller

Peyton Miller (Summer 2010)

2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow Peyton Miller worked at The Weekly Standard. He graduated from Harvard University. He is currently earning his law degree at Harvard. His previous editorial experience includes editing the Harvard Salient and serving on the articles board of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

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Liberal students are not the ones under attack on college campuses today

Many college students moan and groan about racism and sexism and homophobia, and demand “safe spaces” – but the truth is they are already in the safest place imaginable, campuses that coddle and champion leftist viewpoints.

Meanwhile, it’s conservative and Republican students who deserve to clamor for “safe spaces.” Whenever such a student dares to open their mouth or take fingers to keyboard to assert their opinions, they are viciously smeared, attacked and harassed by the very peers who demand tolerance, inclusion and diversity.

Take these eight conservative students have been targeted by rude, intolerant and self-righteous campus vigilantes who are so self-absorbed they can only see their own indignation and refuse to live by the very tenets they demand of others.

Bryan Stascavage, Wesleyan University

TARGETED FOR: Criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement (Sept. 2015)

Bryan, a two-tour veteran of the Iraq war, wrote a column this month critical of the Black Lives Matter movement in his campus newspaper. In response, student activists stole the newspapers with his column, called him racist and other names online and in person, and have pressured administrators to defund the campus paper that ran his column. … Read more.

Aryssa Damron, Yale University

TARGETED FOR: Calling her campus liberal (Sept. 2015)

Aryssa, a conservative student at Yale University, told Fox News about the liberalism of her school. For that, she was pressured by peers to leave the Ivy League institution. Even prior to the interview, she was harassed for her beliefs, and called a “bigot.” … Read more.

Lindsey Kolb, Missouri State University

TARGETED FOR: Defending religious liberty against LGBTQ encroachment (April 2015)

Lindsey came under fire for supporting the repeal of a city ordinance that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender, arguing it did not provide substantial religious exemptions for businesses and individuals. For that she was called a “bigot” and an “awful person” and was targeted by a petition demanding her removal from a campus leadership position . … Read more.

Jonathan Zhao, Duke University

TARGETED FOR: Writing conservative columns in campus newspaper (June 2015)

Jonathan often penned columns for the Duke Chronicle that favored conservative and libertarian principles, but one apparently went too far: He called out the black community for being its own worst enemy at times. After that, he was savagely smeared in a student-led petition demanding Chronicle editors fire him, calling his views “racist” and “unsafe.” … Read more.

Jacob Ellenhorn, University of Southern California

TARGETED FOR: Questioning the progressive “I Too Am USC” initiative (May 2015)

Jacob, USC College Republicans president, dared question an “I Too Am USC” campus initiative that decries his campus as racist, and he also voiced concern that his status as a Republican student on campus often prompts weird looks and judgment from left-leaning peers. For that, he was accused of white privilege, oppression, discrimination and appropriation. … Read more.

Omar Mahmood, University of Michigan

TARGETED FOR: Calling out leftist absurdities (Dec. 2014)

Omar wrote a satirical op-ed that highlighted the absurdities of the left. After it ran, he was kicked off the mainstream student newspaper. Soon after that, his dorm room was hit by vandals who labeled him a “dick” and “scum,” and posted a devil image as well as covered the doorway with eggs, gum and hot dogs. … Read more.

Julius Kairey, Cornell University

TARGETED FOR: Questioning campus rape hysteria (Sept. 2014)

Julius, a conservative student columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun campus newspaper, was viciously smeared in fliers spread around the Ivy League university that labeled him a “Racist Rape Apologist.” The vandals hit after he wrote columns questioning campus “rape culture” and affirmative consent laws. … Read more.

Ryan Lovelace, Butler University

TARGETED FOR: Reporting that students were told to disavow American-ness in class (2012-13)

Ryan’s article about a political science professor who asked students to disregard their “American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status” when writing and speaking in the classroom went viral. After that, Ryan became something of a pariah on campus, harassed and pressured by administrators and peers alike. The faculty staged an “inclusivity teach-in” to protest Lovelace, in which at least one professor called him a racist while others questioned his character. … Read more.

PETITION: ‘We do not believe students have a protected right to use a student publication … as a platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation’

A student at Duke University who has penned columns for the Duke Chronicle that favor conservative and libertarian principles is now the target of a student protest demanding his termination as the campus newspaper’s opinion editor in a petition that calls the columnist’s views “racist” and “unsafe.”

Duke student Jonathan Zhao – a rising senior tapped as the new opinion page editor of the Duke Chronicle – has written columns in the past titled “Gay marriage is not a right,” “Equal pay is anti-feminist” and “A farewell to arms control.”

Zhao has also held positions with the Romney for President campaign and the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, according to his LinkedIn page.

While he has often touted positions counter to mainstream politically correct beliefs on campus, the tipping point against Zhao came after he penned a column May 27 titled “The plight of black America” that stated: “The greatest obstacle to the advancement of black Americans isn’t racism or past injustices but rather the black community itself.”

Between that and Zhao’s appointment as opinion page editor, it was all too much for Duke University’s left-leaning students, who savagely smeared Zhao’s reputation in a Change.org petition demanding Chronicleeditors fire him. The petition is headlined: “We are demanding the immediate removal of Jonathan Zhao as editor of the Duke Chronicle’s editorial page.”

“[W]e do not believe students have a protected right to use a student publication meant to serve and represent the Duke community as a platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation about an entire group of people – a group of people to which the writer does not even belong,” stated the petition, written by a group calling themselves “Concerned and Conscious Duke Students.”

The petitioners do not address Zhao’s lengthy “black America” column point by point, but rather attack his character and suggest anyone who believes as he does is unfit to serve as editorial page editor.

“Certainly, that student shouldn’t be permitted to oversee one of the most well-read sections of the paper,” the petition continued. “Not only was this particular article by Jonathan Zhao abhorrent, but this writer also has a history of publishing inflammatory and ill-conceived pieces in the newspaper.”

The petition suggests Zhao is too biased to fairly edit the opinion section.

“We are concerned that if Zhao continues as an editor of the opinion column, he will also continue to abuse his position of power to create an unsafe educational environment for marginalized students,” it states. “This is not a question of being ‘politically correct,’ nor is it a matter of censorship. Rather, this is a call to hold The Chronicle’s staff and the content they produce to a higher standard of journalistic ethics.”

As of Sunday, the pseudo-censorship petition had almost 900 signatures, with many signers posting vicious comments about Zhao, calling him a disgrace and accusing him of bigotry.

In an email Saturday to The College Fix, Zhao stated that “unfortunately due to Duke Chronicle policies governing interactions with other news outlets, I am unable to provide you with a statement.”

In his column on “black America,” Zhao argued that racism and past injustices are not the main things holding the African-American community back from success.

“Instead of paving a road to prosperity, the self-defeating economic policies advocated for by the black community are shackles of poverty and disillusionment, miring blacks in a cycle of underachievement and social immobility,” Zhao wrote. “In addition to failed economic policies, there are also cultural issues within the black community such as the erosion of marriage that must be internally overcome. Because the economic and cultural problems are casually interrelated, they must be addressed simultaneously if any real progress for black Americans is to be achieved.”

Zhao acknowledged in his column that it would likely rile feathers and concluded by writing, “the black community must embrace societal institutions like marriage and the rule of law and also disavow the mentality of victimhood in favor of an outlook of empowerment. Only having done so can America truly achieve Dr. King’s dream of an integrated, colorless society.”

Following backlash from that opinion column, the Duke Chronicle released a statementsaying “we have changed the policy regarding guest columns to avoid any appearance of bias in the process.”

The College Fix e-mailed the Duke Chronicle on Sunday for comment on the petition, and Editor-in-Chief Amrith Ramkumar responded with, “Sorry, we won’t be commenting on that.”

College Fix reporter David Hookstead is a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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