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.”
Texas State University’s Dean of Students, Dr. Margarita Arellano, has stated that the school’s Turning Point USA student group will not be barred from campus, despite the recent vote by student government to ban the conservative group in the name of “free speech.”
The student government at Texas State University voted on Monday to blacklist Turning Point USA from the school. The resolution listed several accusations about the conservative student group, while confusingly making the argument that free speech can only be protected on campus by silencing TPUSA.
Students at Texas State University are demanding that the Turning Point USA student group on campus be banned from the school in the name of free speech. The university’s student government has agreed to vote on a resolution on Monday, April 8, to decide whether it will censor the conservative group.
For much of America’s checkered past, being black meant having your opinion discounted by default. From the Three-Fifths Compromise that saw each slave counted as only a fraction of a person to the Jim Crow laws that disenfranchised black voters for a full century after the Civil War, having black skin resulted in a constant struggle to be heard.
The Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs heard testimony from university officials, students, and the public this week on the topic of free speech and concerns over dwindling First Amendment rights on college campuses which often impact conservatives.
The University Star student newspaper at Texas State University has fired opinion columnist Rudy Martinez after he authored a controversial piece that celebrated “white death.”
The Student Body President at Texas State University is calling for the defunding of the student newspaper over a recently published anti-white column that made headlines in the national press.
An opinion piece published in the student newspaper at Texas State University this week tells white people that their “DNA is an abomination.”
Angela Davis, the 1960’s radical, spoke to adoring students at Texas State University on Friday. She had a lot to say on a wide spectrum of social and political issues.
Anti-Semitism continues to rise on many U.S. college campuses including in Texas where universities face increasing vitriol that targets their Jewish student communities.
As soon as one Texas university’s acclaimed dance team announced their Inauguration Day parade performance for President-Elect Donald Trump on January 20, social justice warriors pounced all over the troupe for accepting the invitation.
Texas State University students hopped on the collegiate “sanctuary campus” bandwagon, petitioning their administrative leaders to declare the school a safe haven for illegal alien students, staff, and community members.
