Stanford University awarded a campus drag troupe five times more than a student veterans group, and a Muslim group more than every campus Christian group combined, according to financial records.
The Washington Free Beacon reviewed grant documents detailing funds allocated for student organizations, which are funded by a quarterly Activities Fee paid by every student. Students also vote on the recipients.
The documents show $50,000 for Stanford Drag Troupe (which has hosted drag queens such as “Slut the Rock Johnson” and events such as the “Are You Smarter Than A Sexpert” trivia contest), as compared to just $10,000 to Stanford Undergraduate Association of Veterans. The sum is also substantially more than that given to multiple orchestras.
The Muslim Student Union, meanwhile, received $175,000, “more than the budget for every Christian student group combined,” according to the Beacon. The Stanford Republican Club, by contrast, received $7,549.25.
University spokeswoman Angie Davis defended the grants as a “student-led process,” yet the university sets the criteria for approving prospective groups, including whether it considers a group to “complement the university’s mission” or “demonstrate a broadly recognized need that is not currently being met.”
“For the vast majority of students, this is compulsory funding for organizations they may never use, have never heard of, or would find objectionable,” responded Stanford sophomore Ben Marek. “Most students are left unwittingly funding clubs that they’ve never heard of, unless they figure out how to wade through the high-friction opt-out bureaucracy.”
American institutions of higher education have long been recognized as heavily dominated by left-wing bias and historical revisionism, conditioning students to reject religion, traditional morality, and free markets and to view America as a uniquely malignant force in the world, a society systemically rigged against the poor and minority groups, with identity-based grievances forming the foundation of so-called “social justice” and “intersectional” approaches to education.
LGBT groups arguably enjoy the highest standing in the current social justice hierarchy. The indoctrination of children with left-wing ideology on sexuality, race, and other agenda items has long been a major concern in American schools and libraries, from book shelves to drag events to classroom materials to even “transitioning” troubled children without parental input. Many schools have also displayed hostility to the rights and employment of individual teachers who refuse to go along with such agendas. Across the nation, controversy has also erupted in recent years over schools and libraries adopting books that expose sexual themes and activity to children, often in graphic detail and with pornographic imagery depicting specific sexual acts.
The toll of such an activist bent often extends well beyond politics. In 2024, insiders from the University of California-Los Angeles’ (UCLA’s) prestigious David Geffen School of Medicine warned that the school’s diversity fixation had led to a crisis in which more than half of students in various cohorts admitted since 2020 fail standardized tests for basic medical knowledge of subjects ranging from emergency medicine and family medicine to internal medicine and pediatrics.
In response, the Trump administration has issued executive orders to deny federal funds to educational entities that indoctrinate students through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, among other executive actions to combat so-called “woke ideology” in education.
From LifeSiteNews
I will have nothing to do with gays or trans. I have a nice peaceful happy life without them in it. Gay go away is what I say.
When I was in college, the words “gay” and “LGBT” had not even been invented. A “transgender” was unheard of. No drugs, either. Academic standards were high, and you had to work hard to succeed. Many kids were flunked out in English classes during their freshman year, and realized that college was not for them, it was mainly for intellectual high-achievers. And a college degree was not needed for most people, anyway.
It was once an honor to work hard and receive recognition and a scholarship to a prestigious school. Additionally, when I vwas young, students who exemplified maturity and good Christian virtues, as well as intellectual achievements, were noted and promoted, in academia and in society. They were highly favored, and received good recommendations. A fine Catholic boy with intellectual gifts, maturity, and exemplary virtues, was usually on the path to the priesthood. Almost every American family belonged to a church. To have poor values, to be irresponsible, breaking the rules, out for trouble– often a trait of poor achievers and drop-outs– was undesirable, and resulted in a poor future. In college, we had good rules, that included a good dress code (dresses for girls), signing in and out of dorms, study hours, bedtime and getting up at certain hours, etc. You were watched on your behavior. If a girl or boy came in late after curfew, had poor behavior, broke rules, got drunk or got in trouble with risqué dating behavior, or didn’t study and had bad grades– they were on the path to getting kicked out of school. America needs to clean up her schools, and return to God and Christian morality. Kids need a pathway to a good future, and to make a good country.
You omit that, priesthood was often, a refuge, for gay men, in your old era, because, it was the only, socially acceptable, way for a gay man, to remain unmarried. Gays in the priesthood, caused a lot, of the trouble, we have today.
A litle judgey are you?
A “refuge for gays?” Ridiculous assumption. Nobody ever thought like that. Also, I knew of some homosexuals (the word “gay” didn’t exist, then) who led good, chaste lives, prayed the Rosary daily, and did good work in their fields. To be rebellious against God was taboo, a big “no-no.” Of course, there may have been a few very bad “gay” men who entered the priesthoid with wrong intentions, as we now know, today. But there are a few “bad apples” in every field.
Before Vatican II, and the 1960s problems, people from all Christian denominations used to take sin, Heaven and Hell very seriously. They really believed in these Biblical teachings. This earthly life was viewed as a pilgrim’s path to Heaven. Everyone knew that the Catholic Catechism teaches that the “sin of Sodom” is one of “four grave sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance.” A homosexual was smart to keep his life clean. This earthly life is short– Eternity will come sooner than you think– and it will be forever!– either Heaven, Hell or Purgatory.
America has been twisted towards Satanic evils since the 1960s. To believe in God and seek to develop good character, and live accirding to Biblically-based virtues, used to be the norm for kids to aspire to, in America. That is also close to God’s original design for humanity. All of the schools, K-12 and beyond, and many church and civic groups– the Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts, YMCA/YWCA, 4-H, CYO, etc.– were known for forming kids in good character and Christian values, as well as civic virtues and community service. Almost all academic institutions had religious roots in their founders. Stanford University, established in 1885 as a non-sectarian university, was unusual. Stanford Univ. has a prominent interdenominational church, Memorial Church, at the center of the campus. Today, religion and good Christian values, and those who live by love for God and Biblically-based Christian Morality, are often tragically, ignorantly mocked, no longer valued and looked up to, as norms for kids to aspire to. Satan has nearly destroyed our country. We need a return to God.
@ refuge — thanks for the comma coma laugh of the week for me!!!!
Stanford University is another indoctrination centre. Based in California explains why you shouldn’t send your children there. May the Lord have mercy on Stanford and the State of California.
Keep in mind: Stanford students and alumni are simply BETTER than you are. Fear the Tree!