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CU Denver Puts Its Pro-Hamas Hate on Full Display
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CU Denver Puts Its Pro-Hamas Hate on Full Display

By Ahnaf Kalam | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Every so often, a university event accidentally tells the truth about the institution hosting it. The recent panel on November 19,  “Gaza: Two Years On” at the University of Colorado Denver – my alma mater – was one such moment: a rare occasion when the carefully maintained façade of academic neutrality collapsed, revealing the fetid ideological machinery underneath. It was presented as an open conversation, a balanced intellectual exchange. In practice, it was a ceremony—an orchestrated display of political piety in which the outcome was preordained, the narrative sealed in advance. Even the panel composition made this clear: three anti-Israel speakers and a lone Israeli Jewish professor, the only person on stage with firs...
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TPUSA approval sparks chaos at Fort Lewis College: Assault reported after professor emeritus erupts
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TPUSA approval sparks chaos at Fort Lewis College: Assault reported after professor emeritus erupts

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Fort Lewis College in Durango erupted into chaos on November 7th after the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College (ASFLC) reversed an earlier decision and voted to approve a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter on campus. What began as a routine appeal meeting ended with a reported assault, shouting, and a professor emeritus’s profanity-filled outburst—all recorded on video that has since gone viral. The confrontation was captured on video and quickly spread after being posted to Facebook and amplified on X/Twitter by Libs of TikTok, where it gained national attention. The appeal meeting itself followed weeks of tension. TPUSA students had first been denied chapter approval, prompting an appeal that drew more than 60 suppo...
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Faith and friction: A nursing student’s stand at Regis University
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Faith and friction: A nursing student’s stand at Regis University

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice Student John Scarboro and his pastor say they were only sharing their faith on campus while Regis leadership officials cite concern for inclusivity and compliance with university policy John Scarboro thought the meeting would be simple—just a quick talk with ministry leaders at Regis about forming a student group. It didn’t start that way. The 32-year-old nursing major and new father met with university staff on September 12 after campus security stopped him for talking about Jesus with students. Kyle Turner, Director of University Ministry, framed the university’s concern around student wellbeing. “If you engage a Muslim student and make them feel uncomfortable about their own lived faith, that becomes a problem,” he said during the meet...
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CBS Downplays Antifa Chaos at TPUSA Event, Calls Violent Protest ‘Mostly Peaceful’
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CBS Downplays Antifa Chaos at TPUSA Event, Calls Violent Protest ‘Mostly Peaceful’

By: Katie Daviscourt | The Post Millennial A mob of Antifa militants was captured on video setting off flares and smoke bombs, assaulting attendees, hurling objects at police, and issuing death threats. What CBS News Bay Area described as a "mostly peaceful" protest outside a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event at UC Berkeley on Monday night was anything but, according to ample video footage and reporters on the ground. A mob of Antifa militants and far-left agitators mobilized to disrupt the final stop of TPUSA's "American Comeback Tour," setting off flares and smoke bombs, assaulting attendees, hurling objects at police, and issuing death threats. The violence forced riot police to intervene, and multiple arrests were made. Standing directly across from the ...
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Fort Lewis College Reverses Course and Quickly Approves TPUSA Chapter After Student Backlash
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Fort Lewis College Reverses Course and Quickly Approves TPUSA Chapter After Student Backlash

By Joshua Q. Nelson | Fox News The decision came after a petition launched backing TPUSA, garnering over 1,000 signatures A Colorado college student government reversed its decision to block a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter during an emergency meeting on Friday night. The Associated Students of Fort Lewis College (ASFLC) voted to approve the TPUSA chapter after previously rejecting senior Jonah Flynn’s proposal to register the group with the university. "It was strange. They put us in a tiny room, with at least 100 people being forced to wait outside. Tons of local conservatives, students and community members. Inside the meeting, we got to speak briefly, and they immediately voted and unanimously approved it," Flynn told Fox News Digital. Flynn planned to appeal t...
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Fort Lewis College Faces Political Fire from GOP Lawmakers After Blocking Turning Point USA
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Fort Lewis College Faces Political Fire from GOP Lawmakers After Blocking Turning Point USA

By: Marissa Ventrelli | The Denver Gazette Republican state lawmakers are criticizing the student government at Durango’s Fort Lewis College for rejecting a proposal to establish a Turning Point USA chapter on campus. Turning Point USA is a nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative issues on high school and college campuses. Its founder, Charlie Kirk, was killed during a campus event in Utah in September. According to the Durango Herald, more than 30 students spoke on the matter during a four-hour-long meeting last week, with most expressing opposition to the proposal. The effort to bring Turning Point USA to the Fort Lewis campus was led by senior Jonah Flynn, who told the Durango Herald he wanted to “keep the conversation going” about conservative values in ...
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America’s Cold Civil War Heats Up and the Right Finds Itself Fully Unprepared
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America’s Cold Civil War Heats Up and the Right Finds Itself Fully Unprepared

By: Scott McKay | Commentary, The American Spectator Kill the filibuster now, and start making policy in a lightning round. Just before Tuesday’s election returns started coming in, I found myself confused. We had gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia where GOP candidates who had once appeared in competitive positions to win were flagging, and badly, other races around the country were ringing alarm bells for the Republicans, the government shutdown was hitting five weeks, and it was obvious the Democrats were using it to mobilize their base voters in ways Republicans weren’t doing, and what was the Right occupying its time with? Tearing the Heritage Foundation apart because its president, Kevin Roberts, voiced support for longtime ally Tucker Carlson. And why? Be...
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CSU faculty under fire as students allege “hostile environment” in anti-racism course
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CSU faculty under fire as students allege “hostile environment” in anti-racism course

By: Emma Pettit | The Chronicle of Higher Education After taking a social-work course at Colorado State University in 2023, one student had striking words to share in a course evaluation: “I don’t feel safe in this classroom,” they wrote, adding that “judgment and rejection” came from the two instructors. “This makes me shut down.” One of those instructors was Quinn Hafen, then a Ph.D. student at Colorado State and now an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. Hafen, who uses they/them pronouns, was surprised by the comment. Their counterpart, a senior instructor named Marie Villescas Zamzow, was not. She receives this sort of comment every semester. “I can actually predict who’s going to write that it’s not a safe learning environment,” she said, according to a re...
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