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Scholarship GPA requirements lowering for fall 2021 at K-State by Gabrielle Albertson Effective in the fall 2021 semester, Kansas State University is changing its GPA requirement for receiving and renewing scholarships so students will be able to keep scholarships with a 3.0 GPA, down from 3.5. “Given the rising cost of education, scholarships are often the only way a student can afford to attend college, and the cost of tuition has steadily risen as state support for public universities has declined,” Charles Taber, provost and executive vice president, said. “Scholarships are a very important investment by K-State to attract students and support their success.” Robert Gamez, financial aid director for academic student services, said K-State’s GPA requirement for scholarships used to be the highest of any university in the state. “For our central scholarships, typically we’ve always had a GPA requirement for central scholarships to be renewable,” Gamez said. “And currently, right now, for this academic year, it’s a 3.5, and Kansas State University has always been fairly high on that compared to other institutions.” By lowering GPA requirements, Gamez said students will be able to count on aid from scholarships as more reliable sources of income for paying tuition and housing.

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Turning Point tried influencing KSU elections. Now, SGA just allocated local chapter $3,000.

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As the debate over the Student Governing Association’s decision to allocate $3,000 to a local chapter of Turning Point USA continues, a Collegian investigation has revealed that the conservative, non-profit organization previously included Kansas State University in its plan to influence student governments across the country, and the group has made offers to current SGA leadership to attend their leadership conference. In a document obtained by the Collegian labeled the “Campus Victory Project,” Turning Point’s national leadership outlined its three-phase plan to identify, recruit and promote student government candidates and leaders at the nation’s top NCAA Division I schools by 2020. The document, which appears to be a couple years old, lists former student body president Jack Ayres and K-State itself as a “win” in its list of student leaders across the nation who “have direct oversight and influence over more than $500 million in university tuition and student fee appropriations.” Representatives for Turning Point’s local chapter denied having any knowledge of the Campus Victory Project. Ayres, now graduated, categorically denied taking any money from

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A section of the Campus Victory Project document from Turning Point USA, showing Kansas State University and former student body president Jack Ayres as a “win” for the organization. the group, saying that, while he had been contacted by Turning Point, he never accepted any money. In November 2016, months before he had even announced his candidacy, Ayres was contacted by a group called the Campus Leadership Project, which offered to connect him with resources for student

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leaders at a leadership summit. Ayres said the seemingly non-partisan offer looked innocuous enough, so he traveled to the summit in Florida during that winter break, but was dismayed with the material presented at the summit. A website calling itself the Campus Leadership Project offered scant

details on its purpose or sponsorship, but claimed to have been attended by student body presidents across the so-called Power Five conferences, including the Big 12 Conference.

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LETTER: A critical response to SAGA’s statement on Turning Point

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“The conference was all national politics stuff,” said Ayres, now a rural health care leadership fellow at Kearny County Hospital. “Obviously, I’ve worked in politics and have an interest in politics, but it had nothing to do with student government. Student body president shouldn’t be partisan.” At the summit, Ayres was presented with a $700 check to cover the full SGA limit on campaign contributions ($300) as well as his travel expenses, but Ayres said he declined it. He said he was aware he was included in the list of “wins” on the brochure, but that Turning Point will claim anyone they contact as a “win.” “Candidly, I think that one of the benefits to [K-State’s] elections code is that it doesn’t allow outside groups like Turning Point or others to have influence,” Ayres said. “In schools where Turning Point has been involved in elections, candidates are allowed to take large amounts of money from outside organizations. At K-State, that limit would be $300.” Undisclosed financial contributions to student government campaigns by outside entities or organizations are not illegal as they might be in a federal or state election, but such contributions could run afoul of K-State election regulations if they exceeded that $300 limit on personal and non-student funding per primary and general election campaigns. However, any consequences would only apply to candidates and not the donors of any such funds. SGA elections commissioner and sophomore in political science Kristen Schau said the main purpose of the $300 cap was to limit the influence any external organization could have on SGA elections. That has never been an issue before, Schau said. Although they were contacted after their respective elections and offered trips to Turning Point’s annual leadership summits, student body president Jordan Kiehl and student body president-elect Jansen Penny said they had turned down the TPUSA offers.

Penny said he notified an SGA adviser, and that he had “elected not to participate or collaborate with [TPUSA] in any capacity.” When presented with the document listing Ayres and K-State as a “win” for the organization, Kiehl said she had seen a different version where K-State was listed as a “win” without Ayres, and that she and the university contacted Turning Point, leading to K-State’s removal. During a brief debate at last Thursday’s student senate meeting to decide on the $3,000 allocation to the local chapter to host speakers on April 4, neither Kiehl — former chief of staff under Ayres’ presidency — nor Penny mentioned that they had been contacted by Turning Point. “Other speakers had already brought up traits of the organization from both perspectives,” Kiehl, senior in industrial engineering, said. “The discussion was to evaluate the merits of funding their on-campus event,” Penny, junior in industrial engineering, said. There is no indication that any current or former K-State student government representative has ever taken funds from Turning Point, although it was not immediately clear how many students have been contacted by the organization. The true success of Turning Point’s Campus Victory Project has been murky at best — some of the candidates it claims to have supported deny ever being contacted by Turning Point — but when its influence has been revealed, student bodies have taken action against its tactics. In recent years, the organization has come under fire for its aggressive recruitment strategies at colleges across the nation, especially at the top levels of student government. Barely a few weeks into the fall semester at Texas State University, student body president Brooklyn Boreing abruptly resigned after allegations emerged accusing Boreing’s presidential campaign of accepting an undocumented $2,800 and 25 iPads from Turning Point. In 2017 at the University of Maryland, an entire party ticket on a student ballot withdrew after the university’s student newspaper The Diamondback reported the campaigns had not disclosed the donation of design

services from Turning Point. In any case, Turning Point’s claim of helping more than 50 conservative-friendly student leaders be elected appears to be exaggerated. In Ayres’ case, he said he knew of student leaders at other Big 12 institutions who have had similar experiences with the organization. Jaden McNeil, president of K-State’s Turning Point chapter and freshman in political science, said the organization had given the chapter a separate $1,500 to help pay for hotel, flight and other costs. Had SGA declined to allocate the other $3,000 last Thursday, the chapter would have been expected to fundraise that amount. With the close time frame between the senate vote and the date of the speakers’ lecture, Turning Point did not front any of the $3,000 in funds. In-

in which the chapter brought a large beach ball and had students write whatever they wanted on it — and hosting Turning Point speakers Brandon Tatum and Anna Paulina in November to talk about liberal bias on college campuses. McNeil said the club did not apply for SGA funding for the speakers last November because the speakers are direct Turning Point employees and all funds were provided. Malia Shirley, a field representative for Turning Point who covers the states of Nebraska and Kansas, said the organization’s field branch — which handles chapter creation and management of operations such as tabling and hosting events — is separate from the Campus Victory Project branch. Shirley also said the field branch operates as a non-prof-

Other speakers had already brought up traits of the organization from both perspectives. Jordan Kiehl SBP

stead, McNeil said he personally reached out to the speakers, who have not yet been paid, to explain the situation. He said that’s why the SGA funding was crucial for the chapter. Per Turning Point’s rules, the chapter is not officially allowed to support student candidates in any way, including endorsements, McNeil said. One candidate, who McNeil did not identify, approached the chapter for an endorsement, but was turned away. When asked about Turning Point’s contacts and offers to SGA members, McNeil said no one in the chapter was aware of those incidents. The chapter’s membership more or less turned over at the beginning of the year, he said, and the local chapter has focused on events such as tabling on campus, a free speech ball —

it organization, which, under tax-exemption legislation, means it is not allowed to endorse parties, candidates, campaigns or legislation. “Turning Point USA provides a variety of activism grants to chapters across the country, both to TPUSA chapters and other Campus Freedom Alliance groups,” Shirley said via email. “Chapters have to apply online for funding, and HQ evaluates their request and gets back to them. TPUSA did provide Kansas State with funds to assist in hosting this event.” Shirley referred questions on the Campus Victory Project to that branch of the organization, but she did not provide any specific contact information. Turning Point’s website does not mention the Campus Victory Project, although an external

search of the website yielded documents advertising open positions for victory directors and representatives. Responsibilities of those positions include “contacting candidates, building a strong recruitment pipeline, holding meetings and strategizing with candidates to run for positions of influence in many different organizations on campus.” A request for comment sent to Turning Point’s media email went unanswered.

A LOOK AT TURNING POINT USA

Not even a decade old, Turning Point has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, who remains the organization’s executive director. The organization claims it has a presence at more than 1,300 schools in the country, although its chapter directory lists a more modest 451 registered chapters at high schools and colleges, including eight in Kansas. Among its goals, Turning Point says its mission is to “educate students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets” on college campuses across the nation and to identify and support students who advocate for those causes. The group has included the freedom of speech and fighting discrimination against conservative students in its causes. Turning Point’s tactics have garnered controversy and protests. The nonprofit maintains a website database called the Professor Watchlist that lists college professors deemed “leftist” and “radical” by the organization. The website says its mission is “to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” It relies on reports of incidents to add professors to the list. Critics of the website have called it defamatory and said it could lead to harassment of professors, including sabotaging them from gaining new jobs or promotions. The database currently lists three professors from Kansas: two University of Kansas professors — David Guth and Subini Annamma — and Washburn University professor

Chris Hamilton. At the time of publication, no K-State professors were on the list. In Turning Point’s chapter manual, it suggests that chapters hold “affirmative action bake sales” to demonstrate what the organization calls the “unfairness and inadvertent racism of affirmative action.” As part of that event, chapter members are recommended to have a typical bake sale on campus, but with different prices for different demographics: white students would pay $2 for a cookie, while minority students would pay prices such as “$1.50 for Asian students, $1 for Latino students, $0.50 for black students and free for Native American students.” The manual also suggests adding a 25-cent discount for women. Kirk, who is in his mid-20s himself, has led Turning Point to expand its reach among young people at college campuses. He has pointed to student governments’ control over eight-figure budgets as a reason for tapping into the minds of student leaders, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. “It might seem like kind of a silly thing to try to take over student government associations,” the Chronicle quoted Kirk as saying to a conservative group in 2015. “We’re not going to change the professor’s mind. You’re not going to get teachers fired. But the only vulnerability there is, the only little opening, is student government association races and elections, and we’re investing a lot of time and energy and money in it.” Part of those efforts include the Campus Victory Project. In a document reviewed by the Collegian that appears to be written for Turning Point donors, the organization details the project, laying out its plans to “commandeer the top office of student body president at each of the most recognizable and influential American universities” and to “ultimately win back every Division I NCAA school in the United States, over 300 of the most recognizable schools encompassing the student populations of the majority of four-year college graduates.”

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The Houlihan’s at the corner of 17th Street and Anderson Avenue may seem like just another franchise of a well-known restaurant chain, but its owner has a unique background for a resident of Manhattan. The Manhattan Houlihan’s, connected to a Holiday Inn, is owned by a man named Colin Noble from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Years ago, he was in the hotel business in the United Kingdom. Through this work, he met his

lifelong partner, Bridget McCombe, in 1986. “I came to America in ‘91 to buy a hotel in Topeka,” Noble said. “When I saw the hotel, it just wasn’t for me. The guy who was showing me this hotel said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ve got another one in Manhattan.’ I’m from Ireland, and I had no idea that there were two Manhattans in America — one’s in New York and one’s here, and the only one I knew about was in New York. So, I thought, ‘That’s fine, there are flights from Belfast to New York every day.’ It was easy; we could do that.” Shortly after this, the

man showing them the hotels told Noble and McCombe they could drive there right now. Unaware of Manhattan, Kansas, Noble thought the guy was just being a “bigtalking American.” However, they got in their car and started following him with no bags packed. Without even a cell phone, Noble thought they had just begun a road trip to New York. “I said to Bridget after a few minutes, ‘I think we’re going west, and either this guy knows a shortcut, or we are headed totally in the wrong direction,’” Noble said. “I

couldn’t contact him, I just had to follow him.” An hour later, they discovered a city they now love. “He will not leave town when K-State is playing,” McCombe said. “He’s become a real ‘dyed in the wool’ K-State supporter.” Noble bought the hotel and the restaurant, which at the time were not a Holiday Inn and Houlihan’s. He quickly noticed that he would need to make some changes.

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“None of the people were coming to eat in this hotel, which is totally different from the way hotels work in Ireland,” Noble said. “You go there and it’s an experience. You go and you stay in the hotel and you eat in the hotel, it’s the whole show, but in America it’s not necessarily that way. You go to the hotel and you go out to one of the branded places.” After changing the restaurant once, Noble later decided to push for the recognizable name of Houlihan’s. Although it took some negotiating, he was finally able to bring the restaurant franchise to a rural college

town. Last year, the restaurant remodeled its patio with new flooring, lighting, curtains and tables, something which general manager Stephanie Cleveland wants to highlight on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and email blasts through the Houlihan’s website. “We are one of the few restaurants in Manhattan to offer a patio,” Cleveland said. “I hope that people are keeping an eye out on our pages. Hopefully, as the weather gets nicer, we’ll be packing the patio pretty well. It’s a beautiful place to sit, it’s comfortable, it’s perfect for a sunny day. Even on a rainy day, we have the curtains that we can pull shut.” The restaurant also plans to add heaters in the fall.

The bar, lounge and patio offer food and drink specials during certain hours every day of the week. The restaurant also offers food from a madefrom-scratch kitchen. “There’s not a whole lot of options as far as that goes in town,” Cleveland said. “I think one thing that sets us apart from the rest — we have the environment, we look expensive, which can turn people off a little bit, but we’re not. We’re not any more expensive than any of the other fast, casual dining experiences you’re going to find, but our ingredients are fresh, ordered daily and we keep our inventory real thin so that it’s always fresh food coming out.” Cleveland also emphasized that Houlihan’s offers a variety of food to cater to certain diets.

“Because we’re made from scratch, we can accommodate dietary needs,” Cleveland said. “We have gluten-free options, we have vegetarian options. We try to cater to any kind of allergy.” This allows the restaurant to also give a variety of options to vegetarians. “You’re not just going to have to get a salad if you’re vegetarian,” Cleveland said. “There’s other options.” Although she has been with the company for long time, Cleveland said she stills enjoys eating the food. “I have a lot of favorite [dishes],” Cleveland said. “I’ve worked for Houlihan’s on-andoff for 10 or 11 years, and I’ve never stopped eating the food, which I think says a lot.”

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LETTER: Turning Point’s rhetoric does not belong here at K-State This letter to the editor was written by Kayla Clark, senior in political science. If you would like to write a letter to the Collegian, send us an email at letters@kstatecollegian.com or visit kstatecollegian.com/ contact. On the evening of March 28, the Student Governing Association voted to allocate $3,000 to Turning Point USA to bring three speakers to our university “to discuss the importance of freedom of speech and the First Amendment in today’s society in an open and civil manner.” On the surface, this objective seems reasonable and unconcerning. I am writing to the student body to inform you that TPUSA and the speakers they are bringing to our campus are, in my view, extremely concerning. TPUSA has created a reputation for itself that clashes with K-State’s values of diversity and inclusion. Crystal Clanton, the former second-in-command to TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, resigned from her position after a screenshot of a racist text message Clanton sent to another TPUSA employee surfaced. The text read: “I hate black people. Like f*** them all. . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”

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“It’s not quite as stressful,” Gamez said. “For example, for our incoming freshman class that’s going to be coming in the fall of 2019, students who are awarded central scholarships, ... when their scholarships renew for fall of 2021, those students will only have to be at a 3.0. But the renewal GPA requirement doesn’t actually take effect until fall of 2021.” Regardless, Taber said having a good GPA sets every student up for success anyway. “A strong GPA generally

Last year, at a TPUSA conference, attendees were told they needed to “expose Islam” for the “ugly thing” it is. I urge students to research more of the racist, Islamaphobic and anti-immigrant rhetoric TPUSA has promoted. There are a plethora of other examples that I cannot fit into this letter. The Anti-Defamation League has an extensive article on the issue, with credible sources. I also ask students to look into TPUSA’s “Professor Watchlist,” a database of professors that are deemed to be “discriminatory” against conservative students. Professors have reported being harassed and threatened after having their name put in the database, which often misquotes the professors or takes their quotes out of context. As a political science major, it is extremely concerning to me that my professors may end up on this list. My professors have done an excellent job of staying unbiased while teaching controversial subjects. However, after browsing the Professor Watchlist, it seems that some professors are being added to the list for views they express outside of the classroom. Professors should not be subject to harassment and threats because

of what they decide to support in their personal lives. In regards to the speakers TPUSA is bringing to campus, Elijah Schaffer is, in my opinion, the most concerning. On his Twitter, he frequents the slur “tranny” when referring to transgender people, claims a Muslim woman wearing a hijab is a human rights violation and compares fellow white people calling him out for his racism to “when blacks sold out other blacks as slaves during the colonial times.” TPUSA often preaches the philosophy that “Hate Speech = Free Speech.” You may have your free speech in this country, but your hate speech is not welcome on our campus. SGA and university administrators preach about our “K-State Family” but allow racist, transphobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric to be spread on our campus. K-State has proven beyond a doubt that students from minority populations are not a priority.

signifies greater success in classes and is an important consideration for getting future opportunities, including entry into graduate or professional schools and, in some cases, employment,” Taber said. There are a wide range of scholarships available for students, including central scholarships awarded by the university and institutional scholarships awarded by specific departments. “Generally speaking, the university has a number of different kinds of institutional scholarships,” Gamez said. “And very broadly speaking, we have scholarships, which are central scholarships. [They’re] basically scholarships that are awarded

centrally by the university. And then there are also scholarships that are awarded by the individual colleges and departments.” Students can apply for scholarships within their major or outside of their major. Gamez explained that institutional scholarships are put in place along with other financial aid. “Our office will incorporate any scholarship awards in with a student’s other financial aid,” Gamez said. “So if a student applied for federal student aid, we would award federal student aid and we would also include any scholarships a student was awarded as well so the student gets a complete financial aid package.”

Kayla Clark is a senior in political science. The views and opinions expressed in this letter are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian.

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means that SGA isn’t committed to protecting "students from all walks of life.” Whew. Well, their first reason is unsurprisingly vague.

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The following is an excerpt from the document: “With sights set high, Turning Point USA is on a mission to win the outright majority of all of these schools in year one by building a strong pipeline to continue toward competing and winning beyond an 80 percent threshold in the first three years. ... “As the keystone to this project, we have identified key organizations on campus that have the ability to influence and control the majority of votes on campus. In addition, the robust relationships and presence that Turning Point USA already has allows us to put heavy emphasis on encouraging reliable activists to participate in a full leadership development plan that would place them in the most influential organizations and key leadership positions on campus to prepare them to run for student body president. “This also includes strategies to identify, recruit and fill positions other than president, including vice president, the positions within the student legislature or senate and other auxiliary organizations including residential, judicial, Greek oversight boards and recruitment positions with each Greek house. “We have designed a fully scalable plan to deliver victory to every Division I university in the nation. ... This will allow Turning Point USA to train, educate and channel proper messaging to make the biggest strategic impact at our nation’s largest institutions.” The document also lists six core policies it would seek to implement at campuses, including a “forensic audit of all student tuition and fees budgets and online transparency of student fees, tuition and spending” to promote “more free market solutions and accountability,” defunding student associations that “receive automatic dues funding through tuition and fees,” implementing a “national strategy for free speech policy at all campuses across the U.S.,” starting “pro-America, pro-Israel and free market weeklong events on campus,” cutting spending on “frivolous items” by “demanding opt-outs for student

services and student fees” and developing a Turning Point “national speaker’s circuit” to spread “American exceptionalism and free market ideals on campus.” In the plan, Turning Point calls for $2.2 million in financing for the second phase of its Campus Victory Project, including $671,000 in campaign funding and travel expenses. The group’s 2016 tax filing, the latest year for which its return is available, lists $8.2 million in outside contributions, gifts and grants, but Kirk says 20,000 different donors gave even more ($9.8 million) in 2017, Politico reported. Turning Point’s sponsors include the Heritage Foundation, the Heartland Institute, the National Rifle Association and the Reason Foundation, which is dedicated to “developing, applying and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets and the rule of law.” Two years after his reported comments on investing in student government elections, Kirk spoke with the Chronicle and denied that there was “some sort of secret plan” to covertly support students in student government elections. Student governments are vulnerable to outside influence from groups like Turning Point, Andy MacCracken, the executive director of the National Campus Leadership Council, told the New Yorker in 2017. “I can totally imagine they’re thinking that if we can win this on campuses, they will be the thought leaders down the road,” MacCracken told the New Yorker. “This is a way to win it efficiently at the start. The challenge, though, is that so much of this is in the dark.”

A CAMPUS CONTROVERSY

During the weekly student senate meeting last Thursday, the on-campus allocations committee introduced a bill recommending Turning Point be allotted $3,000 for their on-campus event “Fighting for the First.” After 45 minutes of debate, the bill passed 24 to 16. Many students opposed to the bill walked out after the vote in an attempt to break quorum and make the vote null. Bill Harlan, SGA adviser

and graduate student in data analytics, said the allocations committee is tasked with ensuring that organizations receiving funds are registered and eligible, as well as ensuring that the event will be educational. The bill left committee with a 3 to 2 to 1 vote. “They aren’t able to make those decisions based on the ideology of the groups requesting,” Harlan said. “If funding decisions were made based on the ideology, decisions would vary greatly from year to year and event to event.” The “Fighting for the First” panel will feature online personalities Austen “Fleccas” Fletcher, DC Draino and Elijah “Slightly Offens*ve” Schaffer. They will discuss the importance of protecting the First Amendment. “Turning Point USA has worked with these speakers before,” Shirley said. “Multiple chapters across the country have brought these people out to speak on their campuses, and we’ve hosted Fleccas at a regional conference as well. They are chosen based upon student demand and what kind of value they can bring to the conversation.” Some student senators expressed concern Thursday that the three speakers chosen will reflect badly on the K-State community. Riley George, president of the Young Democrats at K-State and junior in political science, said Turning Point is an organization that spreads hateful rhetoric toward marginalized communities and, while the Young Democrats celebrate diversity of thought, this is not what the campus needs. “Aside from that, they’ve also shown unethical financial behavior when it comes to student government elections, and have claimed K-State on its ‘victory list’ for having successfully influenced our campus elections,” George said. “That raises some flags for us, considering SGA is who voted on approving the funding being given to their speakers to come on campus.” The Young Democrats will co-sponsor a protest in Bosco Plaza with the Sexuality and Gender Alliance during the “Fighting for the First” event.

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