There is a video circulating online by a member of a conservative campus group at a private Pennsylvania college that clearly captured a student tearing down its promotional flyers.
The Young America's Foundation (YAF) chapter at Gettysburg College hosted conservative author and speaker Vince Ellison on 20 November. Days before the event, the group posted advertisements for the event around campus.
However, according to Gettysburg College YAF Chairman Tyler Seeman, students who oppose right-leaning ideals tore down the chapter's flyers — something Seeman says happens every semester when the campus group hosts an event — and one of them was caught on camera.
"Every semester, Gettysburg YAF has a campus lecture. So, we invite one of the speakers from YAF's speaker list to come to campus and discuss whatever their specialty is," Seeman told Fox News Digital.
In the video, a YAF member climbs a flight of stairs after seeing a student pulling the group's flyers off the wall, and races to confront the alleged perpetrator.
"You having fun?" the YAF member asks.
"Yeah," the student quickly replies.
"You know that's against college policy, right?" the YAF member asks.
"OK," the student says, before falling silent.
The YAF member then chastised the student for not making it out of the building before being caught red-handed.
"We've got more of those [flyers] in the stairwell, you wanna go get those too?" the YAF member asks.
"I don't know," the student replies.
The YAF member then escorts the alleged perpetrator out of the building.
"Every semester, students on campus tear our flyers down because we're the only conservative 501(c)(3) on campus that actually hosts campus lectures," Seeman said. "So, some students feel, I would presume, that our views and our speakers' statements are contrary or dangerous to their own perspectives and their own worldview."
Seeman characterized the school as "apathetic" toward the chapter's plight. He said that on one occasion, the school sent out an email to some students condemning the behavior of YAF's opponents, but on another occasion, school administrators declined a request to admonish bad actors.
Seeman shared a message to those on campus who oppose YAF's views.
"Instead of tearing down flyers, show up to our events and ask questions, because we want to have that dialogue," he said.
"At the end of the day, that's just going to get everyone in the room thinking about these issues, and we'd rather have as many people thinking about these issues and talking about these issues as possible, rather than just tearing down flyers and trying to silence other people's speech, because that's not constructive."
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