UVA GETS A USEFUL SHOVE – The University of Virginia has gotten smart after some alumni gave it a push.  Occasionally, alumni are useful.  From College Fix: 

Former Gov. George Allen, Fox News personality Brit Hume and other influential alumni let loose on the University of Virginia after it refused to officially recognize a conservative student group on the grounds that it required members to affirm its conservative values.

Warned by lawyers for the Young Americans for Freedom chapter that it had until Wednesday to change the nondiscrimination policy under which it was rejected, UVA met the deadline, according to Young America’s Foundation, the umbrella organization for student chapters.

The foundation said the university’s counsel told it the chapter “would be recognized” and the university “would be reevaluating its policy to ensure compliance with state law and the First Amendment.”

The chapter had been recognized for “several years” but the administration objected to a new requirement this semester that members agree with the Sharon Statement, the founding document for Young Americans for Freedom, according to the foundation.

UVA claimed this requirement discriminated against students for their “political affiliation,” which is prohibited for so-called contracted independent organizations.

The foundation said the chapter was far from the only recognized campus group to impose such litmus tests.

COMMENTS:  There are some signs that college administrations are starting to realize the cost of their left-wing indulgences.  More on that next week.

December 23, 2017