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College says it’s investigating the latest incident
A Young Americans for Freedom leader at Gettysburg College expressed frustration with the on-going hostility directed at the club on campus, including the destruction of dozens of fliers leading up to an event this week.
“I would approximate around 80-90% of our flyers get torn down or defaced in one way or another within 12 hours of us putting them up,” Nick Alverson, chapter vice chairman, told The College Fix in an email Thursday.
In the most recent incident, YAF students posted fliers across campus advertising an event Thursday with conservative author Vince Ellison. The event, “Everything you’ve been taught about race relations is wrong,” was hosted by the YAF chapter with funding approved by the student government.
Earlier this week, the chapter posted several photos and a video on X showing its fliers torn down at various locations across campus.
Ahead of the event, Ellison, a conservative author and singer, also drew attention to the hostility directed at the club.
“You can tear down the flyers all you want to, but no one silences MY voice. Only cowardly leftists respond this way,” he wrote on X.
Alverson told The Fix that he and other YAF students replaced the fliers repeatedly over the past week, but they kept getting torn down – “sometimes within 20 minutes before we are even done posting in the building.”
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Gettysburg College confirmed that it is looking into the incidents.
“We are aware and investigating,” college spokesperson Jamie Yates said Thursday when contacted by The Fix.
However, Alverson expressed frustration with the private college, saying YAF’s activities repeatedly are targets of vandalism and hostility.
“Every semester, it is the exact same issue with only our posters being defaced, and the college has yet to implement any initiative on their part for preventative measures and seems to rely on reactionary measures,” he said. “… To my knowledge, the college gave one student a ‘warning’ last year after being caught on camera.”
In another incident in March, dozens of the chapter’s fliers advertising an event with pro-women’s sports advocate Paula Scanlan were torn down, and one was found in a toilet, the group wrote on X at the time.
Alverson told The Fix that it’s become common among YAF members nowadays to expect animosity on campus.
“These extremists are constantly being justified, validated, and encouraged in the classroom. This, of course, creates an atmosphere on campus that has a constant hostility towards any type of intellectual diversity brought forth,” he said.
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