University of Utah Young Americans for Freedom Named September Chapter Of The Month
For their ability to impact and influence both students and people in their surrounding community, University of Utah Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has been named Chapter of the Month for September. “You have to be a leader out there,” University of Utah YAF Chairman Dillon Clark points out as he reflects on guiding his […]
University Of North Carolina At Greensboro Violates Own Policy To Leverage Fee on D’Souza Lecture
UPDATE Thanks to the courage of conservative students and the concern of free speech loving citizens, administrators from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro were made to change their classification of next month’s campus lecture with Dinesh D’Souza. As of 5pm ET today, the powers that be at UNCG corrected the error they previously […]
Columbia Solicits Student Body For Ideas To Reject Conservative Speakers
Columbia University is reluctantly recognizing the First Amendment with an insulting email ahead of Young America’s Foundation’s campus lecture with Herman Cain, and in the wake of several speaking events being shouted down by intolerant leftists. The email sent to Columbia’s student body by Professor Suzanne B. Goldberg, the Executive Vice President for University Life, […]
University of Wisconsin Tries To Block Public From Pavlich Lecture
In a last-minute move, UW-Madison notified the school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter that unless they found a faculty department sponsor before Tuesday, their campus lecture with Katie Pavlich would only be open to UW students. This ridiculously subjective rule runs against everything the First Amendment guarantees, and allows university faculty unfettered discretion in determining […]
Inane Leftists Plan ‘Penis Arts Fest’ To Protest Pavlich Lecture At The University Of Wisconsin
When the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University of Wisconsin—Madison announced they’d be hosting YAF alumna Katie Pavlich on October 10, wing nut leftists didn’t take long to plan a ridiculous protest. The “cocks not glocks” crowd announced “The Bonerfide Penis Arts Fest,” to be held at the same time Pavlich, a Fox […]
YAF Leaders Nominated for Red Alert Politics’ ’30-Under-30′
The annual list released by Red Alert Politics highlights young, right-of-center leaders who are making an exceptional impact in their communities or on their campuses, and once again several YAF leaders have been nominated to receive the accolade. Red Alert has asked for help selecting a “Top 10,” and voting is open through October 6. For […]
‘We Intend To Shut Down Ben Shapiro’ Declare Intolerant University of Utah Leftists
UPDATED 10:40am MT The University of Utah emailed students with a “safety update” advising the campus community that “much of the surrounding area [around the venue Shapiro will speak in] will be blocked off, and faculty have had the option of relocating their classes to other buildings.” Sources say this is the first time Utah […]
YAF Announces 2017-2018 ‘D’Souza Unchained’ Campus Lecture Tour
Young America’s Foundation is excited to announce the launch of Dinesh D’Souza’s newest project, a 2017-2018 campus lecture tour exposing the fascist roots, ideas, and tactics of modern progressivism. The title of the campus lecture tour—D’Souza Unchained: Everything You Learned About American History is Wrong—is inspired by D’Souza’s latest national bestselling book, The Big Lie, […]
University Of South Carolina Student Censored By Admin For Posting Free Speech Article
Last week, a student at the University of South Carolina (USC) was ostracized from her fellow classmates after she posted an article on a Facebook page for the incoming class of 2020. The article championed free speech and opposed her campus’ so-called “free speech zones.” After receiving a barrage of hateful comments, the post was […]
2015 NJC Alumnus Scott Cook Finds Success In Television Reporting
Young America’s Foundation’s National Journalism Center (NJC) alumnus Scott Cook is a news reporter with WDAZ-TV in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in history. In 2015, he accepted an internship with the National Journalism Center. For his internship, Scott was placed at the Daily […]
Berkeley Still Has Many Lessons to Learn About Free Speech
by Harmeet K. Dhillon The University of California at Berkeley made headlines September 14 for what should have been a routine occurrence: a lecture by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on campus. Observers have been quick to deliver kudos to new UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ for “allowing” Shapiro to speak on the notoriously liberal campus. Not so […]
We Brought Free Speech To Berkeley
Last night Young America’s Foundation accomplished what many others attempted: hundreds of students were able to hear, engage, and discuss conservative ideas at the University of California, Berkeley. YAF’s Fred Allen Lecture Series partnered with New York Times best-selling author Ben Shapiro, and students braved antifa violence, administrative roadblocks, and hateful sneers from triggered liberals […]
Opposition to Ben Shapiro Surfaces At The University Of Utah
*UPDATED* Roughly two-dozen protestors besieged the university president’s office Tuesday to express their opposition to Ben Shapiro’s appearance on their campus. Yet again, liberal students on a college campus have given up on their ideology’s ability to win and turned to ad hominem attacks on conservative powerhouse Ben Shapiro. Posters asking University of Utah students […]
More Than 200 Schools Remember Victims of 9/11 On 16th Anniversary of Attacks
More than 200 schools around the country participated in YAF’s 9/11: Never Forget Project to remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, placing 2,977 American flags—one for each victim—in the ground to remind their peers the magnitude of the loss our nation suffered. Without the patriotic student activists who work to create these memorials […]
Notre Dame YAF Unites Campus On 9/11 Despite Leftist Distractions
When members of Notre Dame Young Americans for Freedom arrived an the quad to set up their flag memorial as part of YAF’s 9/11: Never Forget Project, they were met by sidewalk graffiti reading “500,000 Iraqis murdered” written in chalk beneath the campus flagpole. “We find it very sad that somebody attempted to anonymously, under […]
UC Berkeley: Shapiro Might “Engender Harm” for Some Students
Just when you thought Berkeley couldn’t get any crazier… In an email to the student body, UC-Berkeley Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos provided to students a list of “resources” for students “offended” by Ben Shapiro’s upcoming YAF lecture on September 14th. In the email, pictured below, Alivisatos directed students to a list of “support […]
Leftists Recycle Decade-Old ‘False Flag’ In Desperate Attempt To Undermine GW YAF
Administrators at The George Washington University notified GW YAF that shameful fliers had been posted on campus, made to look as though they were part of a GW YAF activism project. Of course, these ridiculous posters that attempt to paint all conservatives with a broad brush of racist xenophobia have no connection to GW YAF, […]
Watch YAF & Ben Shapiro Bring Conservative Ideas to UC Berkeley
Tickets to see Ben Shapiro at UC Berkeley are now available! Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) are excited to welcome New York Times best-selling author Ben Shapiro to speak on September 14 at the University of California, Berkeley at 7:00 PM PT in Zellerbach Hall. At last, students on the Berkeley campus will be able […]
BREAKING: Berkeley Punishes Conservatives For The Sins Of Antifa
University of California, Berkeley administrators have revealed the backwards reasoning behind their decision to require half of Zellerbach Hall to remain empty when conservative commentator and New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro delivers his lecture (part of YAF’s Fred Allen Lecture Series) on September 14—violent Antifa protestors who terrorize the Berkeley community. “UC Berkeley […]
OWENS: ‘The Flag And Why I Stand’
Young America’s Foundation is excited to welcome Burgess Owens to our circuit of campus speakers. Read more about him and request him for your campus here. As we enter a second season of protest of our country’s flag by young, wealthy black NFL athletes, millions of fans will continue to turn off America’s favorite past […]
2,500+ Want To See Shapiro, Berkeley Says No
Administrators at the University of California, Berkeley notified Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) of a new security assessment requiring half of Zellerbach Hall to be left empty during Ben Shapiro’s September 14 lecture, despite the university charging more than $15,000 to secure a fully-filled Zellerbach Hall. This move to limit […]
Leftist Slacktivism Doesn’t Stand A Chance Against Bold YAF Activists This Fall
By Clare McKinney, Chairwoman of Notre Dame Young Americans for Freedom On the way to class Thursday at Saint Mary’s College I came across flyers titled, “Ethics, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Age of Trump.” As chairwoman of the Notre Dame Young Americans for Freedom and a student activist I decided I’d take a closer […]
Students and Community Members Eagerly Want Shapiro, Berkeley Bureaucrats Say Wait
Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) continue preparations to welcome New York Times best-selling author Ben Shapiro to UC-Berkeley on September 14 at 7:00 p.m. in Zellerbach Hall. Sadly, campus administrators continue to let bureaucratic roadblocks delay the release of free tickets to allow students and community members to secure a seat […]
These Conservative Students Aren’t Forgetting 9/11
On the 16th anniversary of the devastating terror attacks of September 11, 2001, hundreds of high school and college campuses around the country will participate in Young America’s Foundation’s 9/11: Never Forget Project, becoming sites of meaningful remembrance. The memorials are made up of 2,977 American flags placed on campus, one for each innocent life […]
