The Dirty Dozen: YAF Names America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses of 2016-2017
The Dirty Dozen: YAF Names America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses of 2016-2017 RESTON, VA— As student debt soars—averaging $37,000 for graduates in 2016—today’s college students are studying transgender Latina immigration, ecofeminism, gender and food politics, and more. Young America’s Foundation’s Dirty Dozen list highlights the most bizarre and concerning instances of leftist activism […]
Cornell Protestors Target Santorum, Receive Perfect Lesson on Tolerance
Wednesday night a group of protestors attempted to derail Senator Rick Santorum’s YAF-sponsored lecture at Cornell University, repeatedly screaming from the audience in an effort to disrupt his remarks. A packed crowd of 550 people attended the lecture, but the small group of protestors did everything they could to prevent their peers from hearing Senator Santorum’s speech. Disruptions started during […]
Alabany Profs Ask Students to Sign Petition Urging Noncompliance with ICE
Alabany Profs Ask Students to Sign Petition Urging Noncompliance with ICE Earlier this week a group of four professors at the University of Albany circulated a petition to students demanding the school declare itself a sanctuary campus and “[refuse] to comply with ICE officials beyond what is minimally required by the law.” In an email sent Monday to students listed […]
Catholic Saint Mary’s Embraces Post-Election Leftism
Catholic Saint Mary’s Embraces Post-Election Leftism By Clare McKinney Saint Mary’s College, an all women’s Catholic institution in Notre Dame, Indiana, promises students the mission of preparing women for the real world, but many students are wondering if the administration is holding true to that commitment or instead making extraordinary accommodations for leftists. This November, […]
Samford Blocks YAF Chapter for ‘Inflammatory’ Sharon Statement
Samford Blocks YAF Chapter for ‘Inflammatory’ Sharon Statement Officials at Samford University in Alabama rejected a group of conservative students’ efforts to start a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter because the Sharon Statement, YAF’s founding document, contains “inflammatory” language towards the school’s communist club. Upon further investigation, the conservative students discovered the school does not even appear to […]
Celebrating Fidel Castro’s Death
Celebrating Fidel Castro’s Death By Humberto Fontova Fidel Castro jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Fidel Castro shattered — through mass-executions, mass-jailings, mass larceny and exile — […]
Chicago Tribune Backs YAF
On Thursday, November 17, the Editorial Board of the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed slamming DePaul University for its treatment of Ben Shapiro, siding with the school’s YAF chapter who organized the event in question (which was sponsored in full by Young America’s Foundation). Earlier in the week, DePaul turned Ben Shapiro away from attending a […]
How to Attend a Conservative Lecture at DePaul
DePaul University’s decision to threaten Ben Shapiro with arrest for attempting to attend a YAF lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers on campus Tuesday night made headlines across the country this week. But it wasn’t just difficult for Ben to attend the lecture– it was difficult for everyone, even DePaul’s own students. In order to simply […]
YAF Congratulates Senator Sessions, Lt. Gen. Flynn on Appointments
Young America’s Foundation congratulates Senator Jeff Sessions, a YAF alumnus, and Lieutenant General Michael Flynn on their appointments as attorney general and national security advisor respectively. Both men are strong conservative leaders who have taken the time to address Young America’s Foundation’s audiences over the years. Most recently, General Flynn spoke to hundreds of students and supporters […]
WATCH: UMich Leftists Can’t Handle Trump Chalk
Watch what happens when a University of Michigan student attempts to write “Make America Great Again” in chalk on his campus. Pathetic scene. [tbc_video_embed url=”https://youtu.be/HKLtombVOEw”] Conservative students should not be afraid to boldly stand up for their beliefs, even in the face of this intolerance and hostility. Learn how to defend your beliefs on campus at […]
VIDEO: Leftists Chant ‘F*** White Supremacy’ in Front of Children to Protest YAF, Shapiro
VIDEO: Leftists Chant ‘F*** White Supremacy’ in Front of Children to Protest YAF, Shapiro Wednesday night a small group of roughly 20 leftist protestors were booed out of Ben Shapiro’s YAF lecture at the University of Wisconsin- Madison by hundreds of audience members. [tbc_video_embed url=”https://youtu.be/pWZMNOQ5Dqc”] After disrupting the lecture by shouting vulgar chants from the back of […]
GW Protestors: Placing Us in Police Care is an ‘Act of Violence’
GW Protestors: Placing Us in Police Care is an ‘Act of Violence’ By: Sam Cosme Tuesday afternoon George Washington University students organized a class walkout to express disapproval of the presidential election results. Out of 10,000 undergraduates, only about 400 participated. I sat in my Poverty, Work, Welfare class, when students dressed in black began […]
WATCH: Shapiro Confronts DePaul Admins Outside YAF Lecture
WATCH: Shapiro Confronts DePaul Admins Outside YAF Lecture Young America’s Foundation’s live stream cameras captured a powerful exchange between Ben Shapiro and the DePaul administrators who were attempting to prevent him from stepping foot on campus Tuesday night. [tbc_video_embed url=”https://youtu.be/f2iIAXp5KRo”] After DePaul YAF announced Shapiro would be a guest speaker at their lecture with Christina Hoff […]
Leftist Protestors Disrupt Shapiro Lecture Screaming About Swastikas, Booed Out of Event
Leftist Protestors Disrupt Shapiro Lecture Screaming About Swastikas, Booed Out of Event Radical leftist protestors at the University of Wisconsin disrupted Ben Shapiro’s YAF-sponsored lecture Wednesday night. [tbc_video_embed url=”https://youtu.be/xSoTX8xzqDI”] The lecture, sponsored by Young America’s Foundation’s Wendy P. McCaw Freedom Lecture Series and organized by UW Young Americans for Freedom, was slated to focus on […]
“F*** WHITE SUPREMACY”: UW-Madison Leftists Plan Disruption of Shapiro YAF Lecture
Leftists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are planning to interrupt Wednesday’s Ben Shapiro Lecture on campus, hosted by Young America’s Foundation and the Young Americans for Freedom (the Foundation’s chapter affiliate) at UW-Madison. Leftist students have created an event titled “F**K WHITE SUPREMACY: Interrupting Ben Shapiro,” according to screenshots obtained exclusively by Young America’s Foundation. […]
DEVELOPING: DePaul Obstructs YAF Lecture, Shapiro, Sommers
Despite having no apparent problem hosting prominent leftists in the past, DePaul University is working to obstruct DePaul Young Americans for Freedom’s scheduled lecture with Christina Hoff Sommers, after the chapter announced Ben Shapiro was slated to make a guest appearance. To great media criticism DePaul banned YAF from hosting Ben Shapiro in August. In […]
DePaul YAF Defies School Ban, Set to Host Shapiro, Sommers
DePaul YAF Defies School Ban, Set to Host Shapiro, Sommers By DePaul YAF At DePaul University, our Catholic and Vincentian ethics require our professors, staff, and administrators to urge students to ask the simple, yet profound question: “What must be done?” We at DePaul’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter(YAF) have been asking ourselves that question […]
Special Guest Set to Accompany Sommers to DePaul Lecture
On Tuesday, November 15, DePaul University Young Americans for Freedom will host Christina Hoff Sommers and a special guest on campus at 5:00 p.m. The entire event will be streamed live on Young America’s Foundation’s website. In August, DePaul triggered a media firestorm after forbidding YAF from hosting a lecture by Ben Shapiro on campus. The school has […]
Chapter of the Month: CSULA YAF
In the month of October, California State University Los Angeles Young Americans for Freedom (CSULA YAF) was the most active conservative student group in the nation. In addition to holding regular meetings and recruiting, the chapter organized two outstanding campus lectures and participated in YAF’s newest activism initiative, the Funeral for Halloween. For their staunch commitment […]
Schools Postpone Exams, Offer Counseling After Trump Victory
Schools Postpone Exams, Offer Counseling After Trump Victory In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton Tuesday night, leftist professors and administrators across the country are reacting as poorly as can be expected. At Iowa State University, administrators created a “support space” for students upset by the results of the election. A message sent […]
YAF Congratulates Close Allies on Victory, Key Positions in New Administration
YAF Congratulates Close Allies on Victory, Key Positions in New Administration Young America’s Foundation congratulates its close allies in the Trump campaign on their victory over Hillary Clinton. The Foundation also extends congratulations to its allies who have been appointed as members of the president-elect’s administration. Critical members of the campaign have long and rich histories with […]
Vandy Fems Set Up Safe Space to Watch Election Results
Vandy Fems Set Up Safe Space to Watch Election Results In an email sent to the entire Vanderbilt student body by the school’s Multicultural Leadership Council, the Vanderbilt Feminists invited their peers to join their “fav fems” and watch the election results in a safe space sponsored in part by the school’s women’s center, referring […]
GW ‘Privilege’ Display Targets Christians, Police, Men, and More
GW ‘Privilege’ Display Targets Christians, Police, Men, and More A series of posters displayed in a freshmen dormitory at George Washington University targets Christians, police, men, heterosexuals, “cisgendered” people and others for allegedly having various forms of “privilege.” Images of the posters, which were obtained exclusively by Young America’s Foundation, show a bulletin board located on […]
YAF Convenes Hundreds of Top Student Activists in Nation’s Capital for Post-Election Strategy Retreat
Young America’s Foundation Convenes Hundreds of Top Student Activists in Nation’s Capital for Post-Election Strategy Retreat RESTON, VA— Immediately following the 2016 presidential election, Young America’s Foundation is convening hundreds of conservative college students in the nation’s capital from November 11-12 for a retreat featuring leading speakers such as Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, KT McFarland, […]
