The Associated Student Government Senate allocated $28,906 of its $30,000 budget for additional funding to student organizations Wednesday. This number is significantly reduced from the more than $66,000 the body distributed in the Fall 2022 funding cycle. Twenty student groups received funding during the meeting, which lasted five hours. Senators voted to postpone the rest.
In news from the crazy land of America's colleges and universities, first place in the race of hypocrisy and self-refutation goes to Northwestern University, a school once considered among our nation's finest.
Northwestern University’s student government has cut off funding for the Illinois school’s chapter of College Republicans over a controversial poster advertising an event with a conservative guest speaker.
Northwestern University has long been a school hostile to free speech. My alma mater was ranked 197 out of 203 universities for free speech in a major survey by FIRE. (Fortunately, my other alma mater, the University of Chicago, was ranked number one for free speech). This month showed why Northwestern developed a reputation for…
Student government at Northwestern University voted to pull funding from the College Republicans in response to posters that superimposed a poison symbol over an LGBT flag.