This week in Campus Radicals: Christian student flunked, Jewish students shaken, conservative groups blocked

Over the past week, Fox News Digital's Campus Radicals bid uncovered threats, animus and extremism directed astatine blimpish assemblage students and organizations crossed the country.

Below are this week's highlights:

Christian University of Oklahoma pupil graded 0 connected essay

Samantha Fulnecky, a pre-med inferior astatine Oklahoma's flagship university, vaulted into viral fame erstwhile she was flunked aft invoking her Christian, biblical values successful an essay.

Graduate adjunct William "Mel" Curth, who uses she/they pronouns, is present connected administrative permission arsenic the schoolhouse sorts retired wherefore Fulnecky was assessed a 0 retired of 25 connected the caller assignment. Students were directed to work a scholarly insubstantial astir sex norms and connection a "thoughtful absorption oregon response."

OU pupil Samantha Fulnecky, with her Bible, successful the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (Doug Hoke/The Oklahoman/Imagn Images)

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"Gender roles and tendencies should not beryllium considered 'stereotypes,'" a information of Fulnecky's effort said. "Women people privation to bash womanly things due to the fact that God created america with those womanly desires successful our hearts. The aforesaid goes for men. God created men successful the representation of His courageousness and strength, and He created women successful the representation of His beauty. He intentionally created women otherwise than men and we should unrecorded our lives with that successful mind."

After Fulnecky argued that sex norms should beryllium reinforced alternatively of frowned upon, Curth called her insubstantial "offensive" and said it lacked empirical evidence, which was not portion of the grading rubric for the assignment.

"Please enactment that I americium not deducting points due to the fact that you person definite beliefs, but alternatively I americium deducting constituent [sic] for you posting a absorption insubstantial that does not reply the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavy uses idiosyncratic ideology implicit empirical grounds successful a technological class, and is astatine times offensive," Curth's effect said.

Fulnecky fired back.

"I decidedly deliberation that I was being punished for what I judge due to the fact that I precise intelligibly stated successful my effort successful my effect to the article, I precise intelligibly stated my beliefs and stated what — not conscionable my beliefs — but what the Bible and what God says astir sex and astir those roles," she told Fox News Digital.

The assemblage restored her people and is further investigating the matter.

Muslim nine sparks fearfulness successful Jewish students successful Pennsylvania

A Muslim pupil nine promoting Palestinians passed retired keffiyehs featuring anti-Israel disapproval astatine a precocious schoolhouse extracurricular Philadelphia.

The disturbing country played retired astatine the Wissahickon School District's yearly civilization just astatine the Muslim Students Association booth, and near a Jewish pupil unsettled, according to the student's parent.

"My kid came location shaken and unsure of whether it’s adjacent harmless to talk up arsenic a Jew astatine school," Lynn Simon told Fox News Digital.

Jewish parents astatine Wissahickon High School extracurricular Philadelphia took contented with a Muslim pupil booth past week. (WikiCommons)

District administrators, including Superintendent Mwenyewe Dawan, Assistant Superintendent Sean Gardiner and Wissahickon High School Principal Dr. Lynne Blair, participated successful the event, and adjacent posted photos from the scene. Those photos person since been deleted.

Parents said immoderate of the violative slogans included "Jerusalem is ours."

"When the main is posting pictures of students wearing slogans similar ‘Jerusalem is ours,’ and the superintendent is encouraging amerciable minor-led games of chance, portion visiting and taking photos with politically charged booths dressing students up successful keffiyehs, that’s not education—it’s indoctrination," Simon said. "We don’t nonstop our kids to schoolhouse to beryllium marginalized. We request accountability, not photograph ops."

Christian assemblage blocks Students for Life chapter

Vanguard University successful Costa Mesa, California, blocked a pupil from starting a section of Students For Life, contempt being a Christian school.

The decision, which near pro-life pupil Linda-Isabella Rendon disappointed, stems from the school's argumentation that bars organizations with ties to nationalist governmental groups.

Students perceive to speakers during Vanguard University's graduation ceremonies astatine Mariners Church successful Irvine, CA, connected Thursday, May 5, 2022. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

"We tried to commencement the Students for Life section present astatine Vanguard, and we went done the aforesaid nine exertion that everyone goes done erstwhile they privation to commencement a club," Rendon told Fox News Digital. "We applied, we got pupil names that were interested, and aft we submitted the application, we were told that the nine was going to beryllium denied owed to governmental and ideological reasons. The schoolhouse didn't privation to person immoderate governmental oregon ideological affiliations."

After a boost from Students for Life's nationalist leadership, which sparked further speech with Vanguard's administration, Rendon was approved to commencement a nine called "Vanguard Lions Love Life," but that nine is unaffiliated with Students for Life successful an authoritative capacity.

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Pro-life Maine assemblage students warned to 'be careful' of ending up similar Charlie Kirk

An anonymous hostile of a caller Students for Life section astatine the University of Southern Maine (USM) issued a stark menace to their pro-life counterparts.

"[T]hese Charlie Kirk enthusiasts gotta beryllium cautious don't they cognize what happened to the guy," the post, which did not see punctuation, said.

USM inferior Jadyn Carrigan, a pro-lifer, wasn't deterred by the threat.

A screenshot of a Yik Yak station directed towards pro-life students astatine University of Southern Maine successful precocious November 2025.  (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

"I deliberation that, you know, each idiosyncratic has the close to workout their, their escaped speech, and that's precisely what myself and my nine members are present to do," she told Fox News Digital. "We're not present with immoderate malicious intent. We're not present truly adjacent to argue. We're present to person respectful dialogue, and that's the full quality of ideology is proceeding some sides of the spectrum, immoderate that is."

"I deliberation myself, arsenic good arsenic my different nine members, are doing the champion we tin to not combat hatred with hate, but amusement everyone the respect that they deserve, careless of their opinion," she said.

New Orleans TPUSA section stymied — again

For the 2nd clip successful a month-and-a-half, the pupil authorities astatine Loyola University of New Orleans barred a Turning Point USA section from becoming a registered pupil enactment (RSO).

The saga began erstwhile Turning Point-affiliated students were denied a charter by Loyola's pupil authorities relation (SGA) connected Oct. 15. They aboriginal appealed the determination to the school's tribunal of review.

That tribunal recovered flaws successful the SGA's crushed for barring the chapter, but the remedy was to nonstop the lawsuit backmost earlier the SGA, which denied TPUSA successful the archetypal place.

On Wednesday night, the SGA erstwhile again denied Turning Point arsenic a tiny radical protested extracurricular the meeting.

Marquette Hall connected the Loyola University field successful New Orleans. (matejphoto/Getty Images)

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Law pupil and Turning Point protagonist Ethan Estis slammed the determination arsenic "pure politics."

"In my eventual opinion, nary organization, nary substance if it is TPUSA oregon [Students for a Democratic Society] ... should beryllium grated [sic] oregon denied RSO presumption by members of the SGA, who are themselves an RSO," helium said. "It is not right, and we purpose to close this incorrect utilizing immoderate means that are some indispensable and proper."

The schoolhouse says it respects the SGA's autonomy, and noted that determination is nary bounds to the fig of appeals that Turning Point tin make.