YAF at Northwestern University: Advancing Free Enterprise and Exposing Socialism
Just yesterday, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released its latest survey, Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes towards Socialism, which reveals that one in two American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a free market democracy. No, that’s not a typo. 51% of millennials claim they would rather live in […]
Academic Balance Cannot Be A One-Way Street
“I will be interested to see a justification to spending school money for this event. This is akin to bringing a leader of the Klan or ISIS to the school.” (Emphasis added). – Craig Hennigan, Truman State University What happens at schools when administrators learn that YAF is bringing a conservative speaker to address students […]
‘Support The Student Welfare, Not Hateful Rhetoric’: Stanford Leftists Attempt To Defund Robert Spencer YAF Lecture
Leftist students at Stanford University are showing their trademark intolerance of conservative ideas ahead of the YAF-sponsored Robert Spencer speech, part of the Fred Allen Lecture Series. “Stop Student Fees Going to Support Islamaphobic Speaker Event [SIGN PETITION + FORWARD WIDELY]” proclaims the subject line of an email sent to several student lists by Caleb […]
‘Free Speech Crisis Deniers’ Need A Reality Check
Students today are no stranger to protests taking place on their campuses. Higher education’s practice of infantilizing students—grown adults—with safe spaces, counseling if they encounter contrary ideas, and a litany of other leftist asylum activities has all but guaranteed routine protests. Helicopter administrators train students to react with violence to new or different ideas, rather […]
Saint Mary’s Kills Halloween Fun, Schedules ‘Cultural Appropriation & Halloween’ Lesson
UPDATE: Campus Leftists Prove Point of YAF’s Funeral for Halloween After national media attention was drawn to an email sent to students at Saint Mary’s college, students proved exactly why YAF started the “Funeral for Halloween.” Here are some of the responses from grown adults when their own intolerance is pointed out: Some […]
Make Your Voice Heard: Berkeley Seeks Input On New ‘Free Speech Policy’
The University of California, Berkeley is in the last week of an open comment period for a proposed free speech policy, but what the school calls “new” is just a rebranded version of the previous unconstitutional (and highly controversial) “high profile speakers policy,” and serves as a pretext for censoring conservative ideas on campus. Berkeley’s […]
Safe Zone’s Pledge to Silence Dissenters
“I will grow antennas not horns.” “I believe nobody is wrong, they are only different.” “I will transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.” “I will label bottles, not people.” – KU Safe Zone Pledge Safe Zone training programs can be found on college campuses across the country. But the name, “Safe Zone,” is […]
YAF Statement On The Passing Of Helen DeVos
Young America’s Foundation is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Helen DeVos. “We remember Helen DeVos as a committed conservative who generously gave of her time and resources to ensure the next generation of Americans understood and appreciated conservative ideas,” stated Young America’s Foundation President Ron Robinson. “Her belief in President Reagan’s conviction […]
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 […]
