By Grace Chaves / The Point – PLNU / Nov 5, 2025
In an email to Point Loma Nazarene University’s student body from President Kerry Fulcher, it was announced that the Associated Student Body (ASB) rejected a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) student club at PLNU. According to the email, a motion to establish the club was brought to a vote within the ASB Board of Directors, but it failed to pass.
Fulcher said that the primary reason for its rejection was ASB’s concern regarding TPUSA’s “Professor Watchlist,” a list sourced by news stories that detail instances of “radical behavior” among college professors, as described by ProfessorWatchlist.org.
“While the applicants indicated they would not participate in the watchlist, their application included phrasing that mirrors language used on TPUSA’s website in connection with it,” Fulcher said in the email. “That practice is not aligned with ASB’s purpose of fostering constructive communication and interaction between students, faculty and administration.”
When TPUSA was denied twice by ASB in 2021, ASB’s president at the time, Ella Malone, believed it was dismissed because TPUSA’s “Professor Watchlist” didn’t follow their mission statement to foster constructive communication.
According to the email, the applicants said they would affiliate with “TPUSA Faith,” a self-described program to “eliminate wokeism from the American pulpit.” Fulcher said that this affiliation is not permitted under the University’s Church and Parachurch Policy, which ensures that outside churches and ministry organizations do not mimic efforts already being made by campus ministry teams.
Fulcher said that while community members asked the university to influence the outcome of ASB’s decision, he said that it’s protocol that it is solely ASB’s decision.
Ginger Friess, a first-year biology-chemistry major, who would have been the president of PLNU’s TPUSA chapter, said she did not wish to make a public statement until consulting with her team.
Fulcher concluded the email with an encouragement to not lead to division but respond with “humility, grace and love.”
“I also want to be clear that students who hold conservative views are valued members of this community,” Fulcher said. “There are conservative chartered clubs that are able to participate fully in the shared life of our campus. I’m committed to supporting these students with the same spirit of respect, consistency and hospitality that guides how we care for all student organizations at PLNU.”
Kind of interesting, I assume the proposed first year president of the rejected TPUSA club is related to the recently deceased billionaire Foster Friess who was a key financial contributor to the actual TPUSA.
I’m pleased to learn that Point Loma Nazarene’s ASB has once again chosen not to allow a TPUSA club on campus. Everything I’ve seen on TV or read about in various sources makes clear that TPUSA creates a divisive political atmosphere. In my opinion, it doesn’t belong on any college or university campus.
You people are as blind to your own prejudices and hypocrisies like most erudite academia’s are! If this was a minority club, an LBGTQ affiliation, a political pro-Democratic or even Young Americans for Socialism, you’d be all for it! You obviously don’t see the TRUTH of Jesus the Nazarene- which is that EVERYBODY is welcome in the Christian debate and dialogue! As a Christian University, I am ashamed that you consider yourselves a representative of Christ. Political or spiritual discourse should be Free speech on every campus, and that means EVEN if it doesn’t fit your ideals. Jesus said those who have ears “listen!” You obviously have not listened to Charlie’a heart because he listened to everyone else’s with respect and dignity in order to create opportunity to dialogue safely and frankly; he was not at all about division but passionately about winning hearts to Christ through debate and discussion without condemnation, as Jesus did. Listen with your ears and leave your biases and judgments behind
On his radio show, Kirk said that Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are “affirmative action picks”..he also said certain Black women “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
“Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel ‘safe’ by taking freedoms away from others. Don’t fall for it.”
At a Turning Point USA event, Kirk suggested trans people are wearing the gender equivalent of “Black face.”
Appearing on Jubilee’s internet show “Surrounded,” Kirk insisted Black people were “better” in the 1940s under Jim Crow laws.
At a Turning Point USA event in 2023, Kirk said he thinks gun deaths are “worth it” to have a Second Amendment.