On Tuesday, the
Young America's Foundation and the Berkeley College Republicans sued school officials, claiming the public university was suppressing free-speech rights.
Jones became the most requested Young America's Foundation speaker, and his post-event bull sessions with students would often last from 10 p.m.
After a Young America's Foundation retreat in Washington in which Jones fired up a group of students to be critical of the Iraq War and the Bush administration's education policies, the invitations to speak began to dry up.
Emboldened by the Third Circuit's Solomon decision, they harassed ROTC cadets until Young America's Foundation intervened.
Federal Court did not dispute the students' claims, yet it dismissed Young America's Foundation's suit because the government argued that enforcing the Solomon Amendment would not affect UC-Santa Cruz or the Left's behavior towards campus military recruiters.
Anyone wanting to buy the video about the ranch can obtain a copy by writing to
Young America's Foundation, The Reagan Ranch Center, 217 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 888-USA-1776, or visit www.reaganranch.org.
Originally launched by Michelle Easton in 1993 to play "women's auxiliary" to the mostly male Young America's Foundation, the institute is less a think tank than a consciousness-raising organ, dedicated to convincing disgruntled students that feminism is the source of their woe.
Buried in that same tax return is a list of board members, one of whom is Frank Donatelli, the former executive director of Young Americans for Freedom and, later, the first president of the Young America's Foundation (YAF--no relation), whose mission is to seed a new generation of conservatives.
Boos acknowledges that
Young America's Foundation sent the FBI copies of Campus Intelligence Brief, a publication that tracked leftwing political activity at universities.
In a knee-jerk reaction, most of GWU's administration attempted to blame the Young America's Foundation club for distributing the flyer.
The conservatives who were invited to speak were hosted through Young America's Foundation and the conservative students on campus.
"If you wrote bad things about Trent Lott, it would make me look bad," Rick Parsons of the
Young America's Foundation explained to me on the phone.