Azusa Pacific University Censors Conservative Students

Breitbart ^ | 10/5/12 | Patrick X. Coyle

[CharlesThe Hammer]

Azusa Pacific University has blocked students from forming a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter, which is a project of Young America’s Foundation. Administrators said they are banning the group because they disagree with principles stated on YAF’s national website.

Ashley Blackwell, the would-be chair of the chapter, is currently the chair of a generic conservative club at APU and wants to formally affiliate with YAF. Ashley and other key members of her club have attended a number of Foundation conferences both in Washington, D.C., and at the Reagan Ranch, which Young America's Foundation has owned and preserved since 1998.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

The University is operating in contradiction to its own published rules and goals. A few leftist professors are stifling legitimate political expression by young conservatives while permitting a "Young Progressives" club. Here is information from the University's own web site:

http://www.apu.edu/communiversity/clubs/list/

"Azusa Pacific University Young Progressives We as Azusa Pacific University Progressives dedicate ourselves to social justice, environmental harmony and a sustainable society that is based on individual responsibility and empathy. We strive to promote a better United States with opportunity, equality, and freedom within a just and strong society."

Ashley Blackwell, the leader of the conservative students, could use some "tactical air support" from the Freepers. If you'd like to do some philosophical "carpet bombing", here's the contact info:

Dr. Jon R. Wallace Office of the President Azusa Pacific University PO Box 7000 Azusa, CA 91702-7000 626) 812-3075, x-3075

communiversity@apu.edu

clubsandorgs@apu.edu

[svcw]

I was curious as to what phrase that Azusa would find offensive, so I looked it up and web site said this is it: Are you tired of liberal ideas dominating your campus? Are you tired of liberal and Marxist professors indoctrinating your classmates? Do you want to advance conservatism?

I guess if I were a school and the students wanted a club which insulted the school, I can see Azusa point.

Azusa Pacific is a Christian school so I am trying to figure out how liberal they really are.

[Vigilanteman]

I't APU (one of) BO's alma maters? Aren't they supposed to be a Christian University? If so, which brand runs them? Rev. Wright's?

[Snuph]

Fascists have never allowed anyone to shine the light of truth on their subjects.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

“Are you tired of liberal ideas dominating your campus? Are you tired of liberal and Marxist professors indoctrinating your classmates? Do you want to advance conservatism?”

And so, in order to prove that the university is intellectually diverse and disprove the preceding statement, the administration bans the conservative association while granting official assent to the progressive one? This requires cognitive dissonance. It’s irrational.

[SeaHawkFan]

APU used to be a very conservative Christian college.

[svcw]

There is a fully functioning conservative club on campus, that has not been denied.
The school has said the conservative club can not be officially associated with YAF.

[svcw]

Who are fascists?
There is a conservative club on campus.
What is your point?

[bboop]

APU is close to us. They have a terrific music department, absolutely top-notch. As a musician, I know music students/ colleagues there. It is reputed to be conservative and orthodox in theology, quite well thought of. I do not believe all the professors are conservative, though - this is rarely the case in the world today. They do have a Statement of Faith they have to sign.

Probably the reference to ‘your professors’ and ‘Marxist’ is a little too much for them.

[WalterSkinner]

..a Wesleyan Methodist school who has made a fortune off of online education.

Someone in my family works for the Young America Foundation and the Reagan Museum-- I'll remember this the next time anyone suggests supporting anything of theirs

[svcw]

You maybe correct on that. My daughter went to Westmont and I was surprised at the liberalism of some of her professors. She is getting her masters now from Hope, they seem about the same.
My brother received his masters from Azua about 20 years ago, I’ll ask him how is was then.

[G Larry]

The key is to press on, despite the opposition.

I’m here, I’m staying, and I’m going to keep doing what I want.
You have no basis to stop me!

[chrisinoc]

0bama went to Occidental College, very liberal. Claimed he played on their basketball team but no one seems to remember him not are there photos of him on the team.

[Fiji Hill]

Occidental College was very liberal when Obama went there and is today hard-core left.

[WalterSkinner]

..on supporting anything of APU I meant—Saturday morning My Bad...

[bjorn14]

I am an alumnus of APU (MSOL ‘06). They are the largest evangelical Christian university (started by the Methodists) in the US with God First as their motto. I will be letting them know what I think about their decision as I do donate to them.

[bboop]

A close friend of ours, college administration level, VERY influential man, told me - “If you want to study Christian psychology and make sure it is Christian, you will find it at Azusa Pacific.”

[Vigilanteman]

Thanks, both of you, for the clarification.

Years ago, I worked in California and drove by APU on my way to work. It wasn't a bad commute as California goes, only about 25 minutes, and I remember APU as having a beautiful campus.

Really, really sad to see a respectable Christian founded university taken over by leftwing moonbats.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

The “Conservative Club” seeks the affiliation. If you read the descriptions the university provides for each club, you’ll note that there is no such blurb for the Conservative Club. That does not connote an organization that is “fully functioning” as you assert. While it is certainly the right of a private university to make a decision like the one APU has made, it is also the right of donors, alumni, students, and the larger community, to challenge that decision in relation to the university’s own stated goals. This is especially true in light of the Left’s “Long March” into the administration, curriculum, and teaching in our educational institutions. The Left’s national subversion of academia is an existential threat to liberty and the civil society. When it appears at a conservative institution like APU, it’s a clarion.

[svcw]

From the article: Ashley Blackwell, the would-be chair of the chapter, is currently the chair of a generic conservative club at APU and wants to formally affiliate with YAF.
The school said no official affiliation with YAF because of this: Are you tired of liberal ideas dominating your campus? Are you tired of liberal and Marxist professors indoctrinating your classmates? Do you want to advance conservatism?
From the schools website:
Service Clubs (many this is just one)
APU Young Conservatives

So the conservative club wants to officially align themselves with the YAF, the school said no, because the YAF trashes higher education.
It’s understandable.

Yes, there is a fully functional recognized conservative club on campus.