Texas State University professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau compared Donald Trump’s “America First” campaign slogan to messaging used by the Ku Klux Klan on a quiz given to students, drawing criticism from Texas Republicans.
The student government at Texas State University introduced a resolution to condemn the school’s Young Conservatives of Texas student group for hosting a “coming out” event for conservatives, which coincided with the LGBT community’s “National Coming Out Day.”
The former TPUSA chapter president at Texas State University, Stormi Rodriguez, who is now a TPUSA representative, told host Alex Marlow that an “Orwellian-like task force” has been established at the school to monitor the TPUSA group after the student government failed to successfully ban the conservative student group from campus. Rodriguez spoke to Marlow about the situation being a “wake-up call” for Texans during a Friday interview for the weekly TPUSA campus report segment on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Texas State University’s student senate recently held an “emergency meeting” to vote on a resolution calling on the school to ban its police department. The resolution was authored by one student senator who was arrested last week during an incident on campus involving the assault of a student wearing a MAGA hat, but appears to have not passed a student senate vote.
Texas State University’s police chief released a statement to provide an update regarding the recent arrests of four students, one who had assaulted a conservative student wearing a MAGA hat.
Four students were arrested at Texas State University on Wednesday after gathering on campus to counter-protest a biker group’s demonstration that had never occurred. One of the students arrested had reportedly assaulted a conservative student present who was wearing a MAGA hat.
Texas State University President Denise M. Trauth reiterated the importance of free speech in a statement on Friday, amid a recent vote by the school’s student government to ban the conservative organization Turning Point USA. In her statement, the university president also informed the public that student government “does not have the power to ban a student organization.”
