Beloit College student blasts school for blocking TPUSA chapter
A student at Beloit College is speaking out after saying the school is attempting to stymie her efforts to start a TPUSA chapter on campus.
She also alleges that she and her chapter members have been repeatedly harassed, and the school has taken no substantive action to protect them.
A student says her college is blocking her attempts to start a conservative group and ignoring her complaints about harassment targeting her members.
Jocelyn Jordan, a student at Beloit College, recently shared her experience in trying to start a Turning Point USA chapter in a video shared by Fox News Digital.
Jordan said the trouble began when her group shared an Instagram post seeking out a faculty advisor. The post was met with a deluge of hateful comments and direct messages calling the group’s members “Nazis,” “white supremacists,” “Klan members,” and more.
She also said in an X post that images of her “face photoshopped onto Nazi propaganda, with nazi connotations, and just overall disturbing nature,” were shared on Instagram.
After reporting the account to the school and receiving no response, the group met in person with the Dean of Students. Their concerns were dismissed, and they were ultimately told to start a group without the TPUSA name attached to it to avoid harassment.
The situation came to a head when the chapter received a seemingly threatening Instagram comment saying, “The lack of accountability is showing, but the lack of consequences won’t.” The chapter filed a report with the local police, who escalated the complaint to the school.
The college issued a lifetime ban from campus to the person responsible, who was an alumnus working in the college’s food service department, but the harassment did not end.
“The day a white supremacist Nazi tries me is the day I’ll get to prove why burying authoritarians is a family legacy that I will carry on,” one individual posted on their Instagram story. “Come after me I dare you. If I run out of ammo I won’t run out of options. Second Amendment works better when its against Nazis.”
Jordan posted to social media detailing the mistreatment the group faced, and a school official responded by sending out an email calling on students to “be kind to one another” and “[g]ive the benefit of the doubt to other students.”
”I want to remind everyone that our Student Handbook states that social media harassment … is prohibited behavior,” the email said.
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The college also told Fox News Digital that it “takes all allegations of threats and harassment against students seriously, including recent ones related to the students interested in forming a Turning Point USA chapter.”
Despite the college’s public statements, Jordan says that the school has refused to help the group find a faculty advisor. She also noted that the president of the student government said that the group would not be approved even if it did find a faculty advisor, because he claimed that TPUSA runs afoul of the school’s statement of culture.
”These students have been directed to follow the process required of all students who wish to start a student club, in accordance with standard procedures at Beloit College,” a Beloit spokesperson told Campus Reform in a statement. ”The Dean of Students and other staff met with the students and explained the procedure for forming a student club on campus. Any students wishing to start a student club are responsible for fulfilling all the necessary requirements to do so. Beloit College is not blocking these students’ path to club membership, and we are in full accordance with campus policies.”
The ongoing battle also caught the attention of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Josh Schoemann, who wrote in an X post, “Beloit College must approve the TPUSA chapter and take immediate action to protect students from harassment and threats, anything less is a failure of leadership.”
“The fight for a Beloit College TPUSA Chapter isn’t over,” he wrote in a follow-up post. “These students still can’t find a single advisor to take them on— even after being subjected to hate and harassment. BeloitCollege, does the lack of ideological diversity on your campus concern you enough to act?”
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