If there was any doubt that the university is filled with thought police, dead set on indoctrinating students with the correct view – not teaching them to be thinking adults, the recent events at Gonzaga University sheds that.

University officials at Gonzaga University ordered the Young Americans for Freedom to take down flyers advertising a speech by Dan Flynn entitled, “Why the Left Hates America.” They said they did it because the word “hate” was used. According to a press release from www.yaf.org: “Gonzaga’s Director of Student Activities, student organizer Paul Schafer was told that the word ‘hate’ is a strong word and that the students shouldn’t hold an event at which a speaker hates someone.”

Let’s just cut right through the crap, and get to the issue. Gonzaga University’s problem with the flyers had nothing to do with “hate speech.” Let’s call it for what it is: the university’s thug tactics to shut down dissenting speech that they disagree with.

Their arguments against the flyer are absurd. The students were obviously not talking about “hating” someone, the way the Director of Student Activities claimed. Dan Flynn was talking about why other people hated. Gonzaga University’s argument in this is so logically incoherent, it is offensive.

Let’s talk about what is really going on here. Dan Flynn is an explosive, honest, well-researched guy who knows exactly what leftist professors are up to. He knows they want to destroy America, capitalism, and everything Western civilization stands for. He has studied them, he has immersed himself in the topic, and he knows what he is talking about. He is a threat to them, and they don’t want him to talk. Supposed “hate speech codes” on campus are, and were from the very start, a method to shut down and silence views that the university disagreed with.

Unfortunately, many people in positions of power to fix this kind of situation just read this, and their eyes glaze over. It is no longer even shocking; it just affirms what they know about the university.

It’s time to put a stop to this. It’s time to do something, and stop these thugs.

Here is my first recommendation to you: stop giving your money to your old alma matter.

Alumni, even extreme conservative ones, have a tendency to want to sweep things under the rug. They want to visit their old college towns, drink beer like old times, watch their team, and marvel at how big the campus got. Stop it. Wise up. Things are ugly and getting uglier by the day.

The fact is the university doesn’t need alumni money. Most universities have more money than most Fortune 500 companies. And they don’t use the money for students. They use alumni money to build 57 million dollar walking bridges across streets or ugly fountains. These things aren’t needed.

I’m going to go out on a crazier limb and suggest something else: give the money you would otherwise send to the university, to conservative organizations. In fact, I recommend giving it to the Young Americans for Freedom.

I think we should make student conservative organizations so well-funded, they basically can operate their own teaching/lecture series to counter the liberal orthodoxy on campus. Come on, you know as well as I do: literally, the only dissent you will find on a college campus to the liberal orthodoxy is in student organizations such as YAF.

I recently found out that a college chapter of the Independent Women's Forum (much like the one I started at Penn State), started by a friend of mine at New York University, was denied status as a club. I recommended to her that when they filed to gain status as a club, that they give the bureaucrats whatever they want. Give in to them; let them hear whatever load of crap they want to hear. Even with this, they managed to find a way to tell them that their application was too “vague.” They did a similar thing to my club when I first started, telling me my club was not different enough from The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance or Womyn’s Concerns in order to warrant being a new club.

I’m going to spare you the details for the NYU situation, because they don’t even matter. The fact is: this is a tactic. The university doesn’t outright tell you you can’t have a club per se, but they do their best to put as many rules, fines, and road blocks in your way, as I’ve detailed in articles before. All this wastes time, money, and energy. The eventual goal is to demoralize you.

From the Washington-based Gonzaga University to New York University, this type of thing is happening on all campuses. Orthodoxy, groupthink, and censorship dominate all colleges. If you are wondering whether or not your alma matter turned bad, let me answer it for you. Yes, it did. I don’t care where you went to school (unless, perhaps, you went to West Point).

If you want to stop liberalism from taking over, you have to hit the universities. That’s all there is to it. Any organization or movement that has an agenda it sincerely wants to infuse into society will hit the campuses. Anyone who doesn’t make this effort is doing what they do for self-serving, celebrity purposes. It is not just a luxury for any well-intentioned, professional group to hit campuses: it is a duty.

The option of starting new colleges without such liberal bias is not, at the moment, an option. Most universities are state-sponsored, which is why we have this problem in the first place. The solution in the present time is to build up the only pockets of dissent on campus: conservative student clubs. And, if you don’t think these are worth the time or effort, let me just tell you right now that you are wrong. For proof, observe the length the university went to to shut down a speech sponsored by the YAF at Gonzaga. They know just a kernal of the truth eeked into student’s ears is enough to challenge their entire indoctrination camp.

I told you I believe you should fund the conservative organizations. Now let me tell you a little about how I think they should be run. Half the battle with conservative organization is getting clubs that are functional and effective. First thing is first: older, experienced, external leadership needs to guide the formation, as William Buckley did for the Young Americans for Freedom. College kids are just that. It’s not that they lack the intelligence; they lack both experience and time to get functional, effective clubs off the ground. Most are bogged down by classes, and do not have the vision or know-how.

I believe any conservative organization must be a streamlined, standardized group that will hit all colleges under the same name, with a similar message, like YAF did. Of course, I believe in keeping YAF as it is, and adding one more addition: a girl-version of YAF.

Frankly, I think it’s genius to have a predominantly all-girl club such as a chapter of the Independent Women’s Forum. There needs to be a boy group and a girl group. Let me tell you why.

For years, Young Americans for Freedom operated mostly as a predominantly male-only group. It was this way for several reasons, not the least of which was not as many women were in college as men until the 1980s. Especially with the feminist push to integrate men and women together, by the late 90s, many YAFs had significant numbers of women (how ironic).

This is not a good thing. One simple reason: we all know what happens when boys and girls mix. Indeed, most integrated boy and girl groups mostly just dwindle into nothing except partying and internal fighting, no matter what the group is. This is reason number one.

My second main reason for there to be a “girl” group is because men, generally, do not pick up and advocate such issues as dating and marriage. Men much prefer to talk about guns, freedom, and taxes. These are all obviously staples of conservatism, and these messages should get out, but so should messages advocating marriage and family. This is why conservatism has lasted as long as it has: because it satisfies the self-interest of both men and women. Call me sexist if you want, but I believe women will be much better at picking up this ball and running with these issues, which are in fact urgently needed. If they put even a mild dent in young women’s views on dating, men, and marriage, they will be doing a service for generations to come.

There are already these kinds of girl groups popping up on campuses everywhere. Already, five campuses have started chapters of the Independent Women’s Forum. And the IWF did not recruit these girls. The girls came to the IWF. There are resources out there, ready and waiting to get this project started. It’s time to capitalize. (And national organizations don’t even need much money to fund such organizations, since most student organizations can get funding through their schools or raise it themselves).

However, the IWF has not invested any time or thought into organizing the campus organizations, the way William Buckley did. As such, all the organizations mostly act like a herd of cats. They all have their own names, they all have different focuses and messages. Of course, healthy variety is great. But functionality is first.

Standardized clubs also help one major thing: giving alumni name recognition so they feel safe making donations to a particular club. The IWF announced that for 2003, they received a large amount of money to focus on their college chapters. I am hopeful they will do something useful and exemplary with that.

However, if IWF drops the ball, there are other organizations out there, such as the Clare Booth Luce Organization and, also, Concerned Women for America. These groups have provided leadership to women in the past, and challenged feminist orthodoxy. There is no reason why they can’t also be used.

Frankly, I believe there will in fact be a revolution on universities, even if it has to come from the students themselves. Young students everywhere are giving out sighs of exasperation at what they are being taught – all of which has no application to their real lives. My generation is a generation that grew up under the tyranny of the Baby Boomer generation, with all of their divorce and selfishness. There is little doubt in my mind that the pain passed on to us will incite a rebellion. The only real question I can see is: which direction will that rebellion take? Those who are willing to provide leadership to college students will answer that question.