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![NEWS | The University provided the UA Young Americans for Freedom chapter an exception to a required non-discrimination clause for student organization constitutions that prohibits barring membership based on characteristics of personal identity.
The exception for the conservative political organization allows it to use a modified version of the required non-discrimination statement excluding wording prohibiting discrimination based on a student’s “gender identity, gender expression, [or] sexual identity.”
“We were not about to be bullied by this new gender ideology cult infecting the University of Alabama administration,” Trenton Buffenbarger, president of UA YAF, said in an article on the YAF website.
After UA YAF applied to renew its organization with The Source, an annual requirement for student organizations, the Source rejected the application. A University employee stated in an email reply to UA YAF that it was required to include a nondiscrimination clause in its constitution with the “EXACT” wording, noting that UA YAF would remain in “frozen status” until it complied.
The chapter pushed back against this required clause, as it included references to gender identity and sexual identity.
Buffenbarger said in an interview with The Crimson White that he saw this as an attack on “basic free-thinking students,” adding he believes that welcoming in someone who not only fundamentally disagrees with the organization on “ideology,” but encourages the opposing ideology, is wrong.
“UA tried to force us to not only comply, but to explicitly put something we disagree with in writing in our constitution,” Buffenbarger said. “It is a violation of the First Amendment.”
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The Actor’s Charitable Theatre, a community theater company for actors of all ages, held its first performance of the musical “Chicago” on Friday.
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The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees appointed Sid J. Trant as chancellor of the UA System Friday. Trant has served as interim chancellor for the past 10 months, after the retirement of former chancellor Finis St. John.
The UA Bateman Team hosted the “Save Our Stories” exhibit in Reese Phifer Hall Wednesday to raise awareness about ongoing book restrictions in Alabama libraries.