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When the Vice President Comes to Campus By Hunter Morrow, Chairman, University of Iowa YAF
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hen I founded my Young Americans for Freedom chapter three years ago at the University of Iowa (UI), I never imagined that we would host a Vice President of the United States. As a freshman at UI, I encountered many liberal professors, even one who was a self-professed communist. He and I constantly debated issues, including freedom of speech, Second Amendment rights, and government welfare, but the already-liberal students in the class would side with him before I had a chance to change their minds. Then I discovered Young America’s Foundation, the parent organization of Young Americans for Freedom, after watching a YAF campus lecture by Ben Shapiro on YouTube. When I learned that a YAF chapter didn’t exist at UI, I elected to start one myself to bring a conservative voice to our campus, which had scarcely been present before. Our chapter’s first two years of operation were successful, as we organized in favor of a border wall—
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the University of Iowa as part of YAF’s Preserving American Liberty & Freedom Lecture Series.
Students and community members gather at the Iowa Memorial Union for the University of Iowa YAF chapter’s lecture featuring Vice President Pence, titled “How to Save America from the Woke Left.”
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