Breaking: Turning Point USA was denied the ability to charter as an organization affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans at the Oct. 15 Student Government Association senate meeting.
BREAKING: Turning Point USA Chartering
October 15, 2025
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August J. Berner, Jr. • Oct 28, 2025 at 11:25 pm
I am writing to ask you about the Fox News story that I viewed on Fox News & their affiliate Fox 8 News. How can Loyola University permit its Student Government to refuse to admit the Turning Point USA organization on campus? I would think that this decision by Student Government has badly affected conservative students on campus who support Turning Point USA. I am also surprised that a Roman Catholic university would not have overturned this decision by Student Government to refuse TPUSA’s admittance on campus. I am ashamed & embarrassed by the SGA decision, as I am a graduate of Loyola University, and as I have two grandchildren that are currently students and have been for over two years now. Should not Christian conservatives have the same privileges and rights as the liberal left organizations on campus do?
Suzanne Avila DO • Oct 28, 2025 at 5:44 am
Xavier University in the 1970s was diversity of thought. Philosophy, theology and science and literature…soaking up ideas. Opening minds with debate. Allowing me to be me and you to be you peacefully and without judgement. Those years formed my adult life.
I think revisiting this sad Turning Point decision with open minds and some mature faculty direction is in order. Hopefully Loyola’s turning point opportunity is not lost.
Jim Simpson • Oct 26, 2025 at 8:24 am
The SGA stood up for human decency and dignity. Hate groups have no place in our society.
Mikal R. • Oct 16, 2025 at 11:33 am
Loyola, through the Student Government Association, has joined other leftist-oriented universities, in stifling honest discourse. It has become all to common in the U.S. that professors don’t teach critical thinking but rather indoctrinate college students in leftist, radical thinking as do their counterparts in Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and other socialist/communist countries. There was a time when all sides of a controversial issue could be discussed and debated with civility and as a result true education occurred. Leftist professors have come to dominate the social sciences and humanities and they refuse to hire and tenure colleagues that are not in their socialist/communist camp. I am disappointed in the decision not to charter Turning Point and would therefore not recommend Loyola to parents and students looking for a place to learn how to think, analyze, make decisions, and solve problems. As Charlie Kirk said and did, a modern college education in the social sciences and humanities is not a requirement for success today. IT IS A SAD TIME FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA
Andrew Perdomo • Oct 15, 2025 at 9:20 pm
A great mistake and sin.