College Student Prevented From Starting Campus Club for Conservatives
The left is always talking about fairness but they don’t really mean it.
Lauren Houck reports at Campus Reform.
Student told she can’t start conservative club
Moriah DeMartino, an incoming freshman at Hagerstown Community College (HCC) in Maryland, has been told she cannot establish a conservative club on campus.
When DeMartino approached school administrators in mid-August with her desire to start a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) club, she was told there could be no such club. Heather Barnhart, the school’s club and student organization adviser, told Moriah in an email she could start a Republican club if, and only if, a Democrat club was launched simultaneously.
According to DeMartino, she was then put in contact with Political Science professor Eric Schwartz about starting a TPUSA club as a branch of the political science club on campus. Schwartz allegedly told DeMartino a Turning Point USA club was too political and that he would like to see a Young Republicans club alongside a Young Democrats club.
In an email to DeMartino, Schwartz said he had already begun searching for a faculty adviser for the group.
“One objective of the political science club is to seek balance. We welcome your participation in the political science club. Please bring your political viewpoints into the mix!” Schwartz wrote.