Creighton University — a Jesuit college in Omaha, Nebraska — just marked two semesters in a row of denying ROTC student Justin Carrizales’ application to start a chapter of the conservative organization Turning Point USA. But there also concerns that Creighton is cracking down on Justin [at right] over his outing some petty behavior by a Creighton professor. [photos via: Creighton U/Justin Carrizale]
The student tried to remain anonymous when he was responsible for Hypeline reporting that Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta had done some serious editorializing and indoctrination during a test for his “World Literature I: Antiquity to the Renaissance” course. An extra credit question on an exam (worth 5 points!) offered the multiple-choice options of “Donald Trump is a) a fool; b) already in hell; c) a clown; d) all of the answer choices for this question are correct; e) an evil man; f) the Anti-Christ.”
The real answer to that question, of course, was that students were going to be cheated out of five points on an exam unless they went along with Dr. Fidel’s deep thoughts on topics that don’t really reflect issues covering world literature through the antiquity to the renaissance.
Carrizales soon had his name associated with the article — partly because of his work with Turning Point USA, which must be pretty well known around the Creighton campus. He later went to his (typically outspoken) Facebook page to out himself as the Hypeline source, adding that he was protesting instructors who “thrust their opinions down students’ throats in a fashion as if it were factual.”
Creighton spokeswoman Cindy Workman told TheCollegeFix’s Matt Lamb (who’s also associated with Turning Point USA) that the university had already denied Carrizales’ application before the Hypeline story was ever published. Lamb notes that means the advisors waited six weeks before getting around to telling Carrizales about the decision.
