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> dealing blacks came and I got to show off my new dress.

Author James Lindsay claimed 'Leftist agitators' convinced student
government to pull funding

Student government at Northwestern University in Illinois "indefinitely"
froze the funds of the university's chapter of College Republicans amid
backlash to posters advertising an event with a conservative speaker.

The university's Associated Student Government (ASG) last week passed
"emergency legislation" by a large majority that cut off funding for the
Northwestern University College Republicans (NUCR), according to the Daily
Northwestern.

The move reportedly came in response to controversial flyers that
advertised a May 2 event the organization hosted with conservative speaker
James Lindsay, an author and leading critic of critical race theory. His
speech covered the perils of Marxism and transgenderism, according to the
Post Millennial.

One of the posters, which noted the event with Lindsay was also presented
by the school's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), depicted a
skull-and-bones poison symbol superimposed over an LGBT pride flag framed
in sunglasses, according to the student newspaper.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ORDERS SHELTER-IN-PLACE AFTER CHICAGO-AREA BEACH
SHOOTING LEAVES 1 DEAD, 2 INJURED

Lindsay told the Post Millennial that "woke" students at the school
apparently took the flyer as "a death threat."

"A kid showed it to me, and the first thing I said was, 'Oh, that's the
poison symbol, not a threat. If you were educated here you'd know that,'"
he told the outlet. "The Leftist agitators on the rather embarrassing
campus convinced the Leftist student government to freeze their funding
based on the use of the internationally recognized poison icon on the
flyer, claiming it represents death threats against 'LGBTQ.' Designer is
gay himself."

Molly Whalen, a junior who serves as co-president of ASG, told the Daily
Northwestern that they froze the funds because the flyers were allegedly
in violation of the university's Policy on Discrimination & Harassment,
which prohibits the display of "offensive objects and pictures that are
based on a protected class."

FIRED COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO OPPOSED SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES SPEAKS OUT:
�STATE-FUNDED SMEAR CAMPAIGN�

Northwestern University's Webster Arch
The Weber Arch at Northwestern University on Nov. 13, 2020, in Evanston,
Illinois. Northwestern graduate student workers voted to unionize after
years of organizing. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service
via Getty Images)

"We can�t prevent a speaker from coming to campus as student government.
That�s done by administration," Whalen said. "We focused on the part that
we could control, which is student group conduct and student group
finances."

Weinberg College freshman Malik Rice, who serves as ASG�s co-executive
officer of justice and inclusion, helped write the legislation and said
ASG has a duty to amplify the voices of the marginalized.

"There is a side of injustice and [one of justice]," he said. "ASG does
not want to be on the side of injustice."

The funds will reportedly remain frozen until university officials
investigate to determine if the posters violated the harassment policy.

Agustin Bayer, the acting president of NUCR, claimed to the College Fix
that their organization had not been told about the ASG meeting that saw
their funding pulled.

"They did not reach out to us regarding their concern over the
advertisement before the event, nor did they invite us to speak for
ourselves at the meeting, and in fact they still haven�t even officially
notified us of their decision," Bayer told the College Fix. "We only
learned of their move from the school paper when they asked us for
comment."

OVER 100 HARVARD PROFESSORS AND STAFF STAND UP FOR FREE SPEECH WITH NEW
COUNCIL: �WE ARE IN A CRISIS TIME�

Bayer told the Daily Northwestern that they consider the ASG's move as "an
attempt to kill our freedom of expression and speech at Northwestern."

quad on campus at Northwestern University
Quadrangle bordered by fraternities on the campus of Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois. (Chicago Tribune via Getty Images)

Northwestern University spokesperson Jon Yates said in the lead-up to the
event with Lindsay that while "the speaker�s views do not align with
Northwestern�s commitment to diversity and inclusion, they are protected
by free speech and free expression."

Legal scholar and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley, an alumnus of
Northwestern University, was also critical of the student government's
actions and wrote on his website Tuesday that his alma mater "has long
been a school hostile to free speech."

"It is doubtful that other groups from the College Democrats to Black
Lives Matter to pro-choice groups would be sanctioned for using the common
symbol to express their opposition to the MAGA movement or racism or pro-
life positions," Turley wrote.

Jonathan Turley
George Washington University professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan
Turley wrote that Northwestern University "has long been a school hostile
to free speech." (Fox News)

"I do not like the imagery and I expect that I do not agree with some of
Lindsey�s views. However, the action taken by the board was legitimately
called out by the writer as an attack on his free speech," Turley
continued, later adding that "the university will have to do more than be
a pearl-clutching pedestrian when confronted by such attacks on a free
speech."

Neither Northwestern University nor its student government immediately
responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

kw61
9 May, 2023

Another lawsuit a university will lose. Liability insurance is going to
start getting pretty expensive for universities.

wildman1313
9 May, 2023

Agree. You can't pull funding over a First Amendment issue. The left loves
to claim their right to free speech, but the moment a conservative
exercises the same right. The left attacks!

apdent
9 May, 2023

By the university's response, it looks like the College Republicans got
their poster right.

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college-republicans-funding-poster-critical-lgbtq-community>