Texas College Takes Action Against Conservative Student

And scored points fighting the first two entries in the Bill of Rights. “A Texas student claims university administrators revoked an academic excellence award he was slated to receive due to his vocal commentary on the school’s bias against conservatives,” Toni Airaksinen writes on the Campus Reform site. “Quade Lancaster, a business student at Lone Star College-Tomball, told Campus Reform in April that he lost his position as student government president after he expressed pro-gun views in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.”

“‘I explained that I don’t think taking guns away will solve anything,’ Lancaster explained, recounting a private conversation he had with fellow student government members in the student center. The next day, administrator Shannon Marino told him he was being ‘demoted’ to Vice President. Unlike at other most universities, Lancaster’s position was appointed, not elected, and therefore his demotion happened with no input from the student body.”

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