College Officials Shut Down Student Conservative Group After Seeing Anti-Obama Literature

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 7, 2010

College Officials Shut Down Student Conservative Group After Seeing Anti-Obama Literature

(Lake Worth, FL) On Tuesday September 7, 2010 at around 11:00am one Palm Beach State College (PBSC) student and two Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) members, state chairman Daniel P. Diaz and state vice chairman Eddie Shaffer, were shut down and had campus police called on them after tabling and recruiting during club rush at the College. The PBSC student, Christina Beattie, had received prior permission from college administrator Olivia Ford-Morris to promote her organization on campus via telephone and email communication.

On the day of club rush, officials approached the group and after seeing information about the organization and its ideals criticizing Barack Obama’s economic policy. Ms. Ford-Morris was visibly disturbed by the material presented, published by the Heritage Foundation, criticizing President Obama’s administration. College officials then called the campus police to assure the group left campus. Ms. Ford-Morris denied having ever talked to Ms. Beattie about giving permission to the organization to be a part of PBSC club rush.

“I was shocked and offended by her dishonesty. She outright denied giving me permission to table at Club Rush simply because she disagreed with my beliefs! The fact is, she was using her administrative power to silence the conservative opposition.” said Christina Beattie.

Christina Beattie, a student at PBSC has been the lead organizer of a weeklong recruitment event for YAF. Christina saw a need for a conservative club on campus and decided to create a YAF Chapter. Beattie inquired with college Student Activities Coordinator, Ms. Olivia Ford-Morris, via email about being allowed to recruit at the college rush. To Christina’s surprise Ms. Ford-Morris called her and allowed the group to table at the event. Other groups on campus attended the event and tabled, but had not registered with the student activities coordinator. These groups remained untouched and were allowed to recruit even without permission. The Film Club, one of the groups not authorized to participate in the event, declined to comment for fear of reprisal from college administration.

Daniel P. Diaz commented that “It is extremely frustrating that when a conservative organization like YAF tries to start a chapter on a public university, administrators who proclaim that colleges are the market place of ideas proceed to be intolerant and censor views contrary to the liberal ideology. The public should be outraged at ideologically driven college faculties and as a community we should demand that all views receive the same outlet on college campuses. Call your local college and demand free speech!”

Photos and video are available on Florida YAF Facebook Group.

Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=339398679377

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Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is a conservative group that was founded on Sept 11^th 1960. YAF continues to be active as a national organization with chapters throughout the United States. Since its founding, YAF continuously identified itself as “conservative”. The founders were among those who helped to define the modern meaning of this term in American politics. The Sharon Statement is the founding statement of principles of the Young Americans for Freedom.

Florida YAF Contact:                                                                        Palm Beach State YAF Contact:
Name: Daniel P. Diaz                                                                          Name: Christina Beattie
Phone: 954-834-3429                                                                      Phone: 305-322-9291
Email: [email protected]                                                        Email: [email protected]

Name: Eddie Shaffer
Phone: 772-678-1509
Email: [email protected]

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