By PHILIP WEGMANN, Washington Examiner
Conservative clubs aren’t welcome at Samford University for fear that their presence might offend communists on campus. For the foreseeable future, the Southern Baptist college will remain a safe space for Marxists.
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Before Thanksgiving break, the administration blocked students from founding a Young America’s Freedom chapter. The conservative students’ application was rejected, the Faculty Senate explained, because of “inflammatory language” in the organization’s national charter.
“We’re looking for the YAF student group to amend or justify the inflammatory language listed in their purpose,” a Samford official wrote in an email obtained by the Washington Examiner. “This is the direct statement from the Sharon Statement that, though likely appropriate in 1960, does not hold the same in 2016.”
The brainchild of National Review’s William F. Buckley, YAF has been a conservative vanguard of sorts on campus for more than half a century. From Hillsdale to Cornell, colleges across the country and the ideological spectrum have hosted the group.
