California university students' third attempt to form TPUSA chapter denied

A 3rd effort by students astatine Point Loma Nazarene University successful San Diego to found a school-supported Turning Point USA (TPUSA) section was denied by the university's Associated Student Body (ASB) Board of Directors. 

The determination was announced successful an email sent to students by assemblage President Kerry Fulcher connected Wednesday, Nov. 5.

"I felt silenced erstwhile I got that email," said Luke Cole, the elected caput of the section and third-year pupil astatine the university. "I felt similar I couldn’t talk anymore."

The email, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, said the question was brought to a ballot by the ASB Board of Directors and failed to walk aft a reappraisal process. The email expressed concerns implicit the organization’s Professor Watchlist. According to TPUSA's website, the Professor Watchlist aims to "expose and document" professors who discriminate against blimpish students.

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Ginger Friess, elected president of TPUSA Point Loma, with chap students and Sen. Brian Jones, astatine an on-campus memorial for Charlie Kirk hosted by the university's Students for Life club. (Ginger Friess)

"While the applicants indicated they would not enactment successful the watchlist, their exertion included phrasing that mirrors connection utilized connected TPUSA’s website successful transportation with it," Fulcher wrote successful the email. "That signifier is not aligned with ASB’s intent of fostering constructive connection and enactment betwixt students, faculty, and administration."

The email besides cited the club's intent to affiliate with TPUSA Faith, an inaugural that aims to "unite the Church" and "eliminate wokeism," according to its website. Fulcher said that was a usurpation of the university's Church and Parachurch policies.

"This argumentation is successful spot to guarantee that extracurricular churches oregon ministry organizations, nevertheless well-intentioned, bash not duplicate efforts already being led by our field ministry squad and usage assemblage resources to beforehand their ain programming," Fulcher wrote successful the email.

Fulcher said the authorization to o.k. oregon contradict student-initiated clubs rests solely with the ASB Board of Directors. According to PLNU's website, the schoolhouse presently hosts a "B.R.E.A.K." nine which "emphasizes the value of sex equality connected a schoolhouse campus." Hosts sermon issues specified arsenic "privilege" and "gender justice." The schoolhouse besides hosts a "Center for Justice and Reconciliation" radical which focuses connected "immigration and radical justice" and allows students to "process injustices successful their communities," according to the website.

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Point Loma Nazarene University students held a vigil for Charlie Kirk successful the days aft his assassination. Chairs were lined with posters of Kirk successful remembrance. (Ginger Friess)

The determination has near students crestfallen. Ginger Friess, a first-year pupil astatine the university, told Fox News Digital that aft Charlie Kirk’s death, she felt called to service her field done founding a TPUSA chapter.

"For me, it was astir uncovering information and making abstraction for that connected this campus," said Friess. "I watched students and faculty, who identified arsenic Christian, observe quality decease connected campus… and I was profoundly troubled by that. 

She added: "[Kirk] invited each people, each students connected field to an unfastened mic. We privation to unfastened up the conversation."

Brooklyn Stratton, a third-year pupil astatine PLNU and elected vice president of TPUSA Point Loma said she and different young conservatives felt targeted connected assemblage campuses pursuing Kirk’s death. 

"I conscionable wanted to marque a assemblage for different students who [were] besides feeling this mode to get together," said Stratton. "College is our formative years… I consciousness similar not giving radical the accidental to research which broadside of authorities they’re connected doesn't align with escaped code astatine all." 

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The enactment of a TPUSA section was besides rejected doubly successful 2021, according to the campus’ pupil newspaper. 

Associate Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs Lora Flemming shared successful a connection with Fox News Digital that the assemblage is simply a spot wherever "students from a assortment of backgrounds are welcomed into a assemblage shaped by faith."

"The result of this nine exertion should not beryllium misunderstood arsenic a departure from our Christian ngo oregon a rejection of blimpish perspectives," said Flemming successful the statement. "Calling into question the university’s Christian individuality oregon discrediting our ASB leaders due to the fact that of disagreement implicit this nine determination is not reflective of however Christians are called to prosecute with 1 different successful information and grace."

Several students astatine Point Loma Nazarene University successful San Diego said they felt targeted connected field pursuing Charlie Kirk’s death.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Friess shared that her gramps was 1 of Turning Point USA’s archetypal donors successful 2012, motivating her to statesman a section herself. 

"Ultimately, I anticipation to make loving people. People that are consenting to person the boldness to advocator for the eternal goodness for others," said Friess. "And besides to equip blimpish students with a bosom for Christ."

Despite the students’ efforts being denied, they made wide this was not the extremity for TPUSA successful Point Loma. The students shared that they were looking into the entreaty process and gathering disconnected campus.

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"My schoolhouse is truly trying hard to enactment neutral, but the mode they’re staying neutral, truly isn’t neutral astatine all," said Stratton. "I conjecture the question I’m wondering is, ‘is my medication astatine Point Loma Nazarene University giving a abstraction for not lone diverseness of being but diverseness of thought?’"

Fox News Digital contacted PLNU ASB’s President Kenzie Lopez and Director of Student Relations Nathan Blanco. Blanco declined to remark and Lopez did not respond astatine the clip of publication.