UPDATE: UNC Republicans lose battle, win war

The College Republicans at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill will bring two leading conservative women to campus, despite efforts by the student government to quash their efforts.

After the UNC Student Congress denied the College Republicans the necessary funding to bring Katie Pavlich and Anne McElhinny to speak on campus, the group launched a crowdsourced Internet funding campaign. On Friday, the group announced that they had raised enough money to pay the speakers’ fees.

“We can confirm [Pavlich and McElhinny] are coming on the same night to stand in opposition to the student congress,” said Ben Smith, executive vice chairman of the College Republicans, in a statement to The College Fix. “We are excited.”

Pavlich and McElhinny — as well as the Young America’s Foundation — helped organize the Internet funding campaign.

The College Republicans had originally asked the student government for a funding allocation of $8,000 to bring the speakers to campus. But the finance committee decided to give them a mere $3,000–despite having $90,000 in the bank. Socialist and feminist groups received more money.

Conservative students appealed the decision to the full Student Government, which voted 21-1 to keep the group’s funding at $3,000. Multiple student government leaders expressed the view that Pavlich and McElhinny were “non-intellectual,” “unreliable” and unworthy of students’ time.

Now, it seems the Student Congress’s efforts to insulate campus from conservative viewpoints has backfired.

Via: Daily Caller

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UNC student leaders accuse conservative women of being ‘non-intellectuals’

The student government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has dealt a final blow to the College Republicans’ budgetary plans, effectively barring the group from bringing two well-known conservative women to campus — and insulting those women in the process.

Last week, the student government finance committee slashed the College Republicans’ funding allocation from $8,000 to $3,000. The cut meant that students would not be able to bring conservative speakers Katie Pavlich and Ann McElhinny to campus, so they appealed the decision to the full Student Congress.

College Republican chairman Peter McClelland argued that the funding was important in order to maintain a semblance of intellectual diversity on the liberal campus. UNC Students have few chances to be exposed to conservative speakers and ideas, he said. Besides, at least  two liberal organizations — a socialist club and a feminist magazine — received more funding than the College Republicans. (RELATED: University guts budget for College Republicans, gives extra cash to feminist group)

But the Student Congress was unmoved by these arguments, and voted 21-1 to allocate only $3,000 to the club earlier this week.

During the debate over the issue, several student government leaders insulted Pavlich and McElhinny, whom they deemed “non-intellectual,” “non-academic” and “unreliable.”

McElhinny is a well-known environmental reporter and investigative journalist who has received accolades for her documentary, “Frack Nation.”

Pavlich is a Fox News contributor and author of The New York Times bestseller, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up.”

But these credentials did not impress the UNC Student Congress.

Via: The Daily Caller

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