The Campus Conservative

Today, The Robert R. Muntz Library at The University of Texas at Tyler presents a display on the second floor in honor of Black History Month. The display touts the popular Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as “a new civil rights movement” and presents a timeline of contemporary events that have fueled and attended the movement. The display claims to illustrate the bad outcomes that come upon blacks when “racial disparities” exist in law enforcement. However, by unfairly maligning police, misrepresenting BLM’s relationship with black America and promoting the false oppression narrative behind Black Lives Matter, the display instead represents a lazy intellectual effort to understand the truth about individuals’ relationships within society. It achieves this in at least four ways. First of all, the display encourages unwarranted suspicion of police officers by highlighting numerous controversial instances involving police and black Americans. Instead of acknowledging the numero...

Charles Darwin This weekend, The University of Texas at Tyler will host its annual Darwin Day activities with lectures, events, and educational booths. According to the International Darwin Day website , Darwinism is neither good nor bad, but instead just “properly sourced” and “factual.” Darwinism is fact. But is it? Here is engineer Dr. Henry M. Morris:  "Since both naturalism [the belief that life came about solely through natural causes] and humanism [the belief that man is the center of the universe] exclude God from science...their position is nothing but atheism. And atheism, no less than theism, is a religion!" (Parentheses mine.) Darwinian evolution is a religion, Morris writes. And he’s right. Here is why:  1. Darwinism claims to answer ultimate questions which mere science cannot do. Darwinism competes with religion with its history of man, its definition of his nature and his fundamental problem as a race. These claims address ultimate questio...

Who do you think is more likely to spend money in the wisest, most economical way? Is it the bureaucrat who is responsible for spending other people’s money on other people's priorities or the individual who spends her own money on her own priorities? Here is economist Milton Friedman in favor of the individual: You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. ... Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income. This is a large part of why I oppose some students’ recent call to make the University responsible to provide no-cost feminine hygiene products. The University's involvement will doubtless cause expenses to rise and therefore demand ...

In October 2017, student government Parliamentarian Katie Hicken indicated that she wanted to start a new student organization, a chapter of PERIOD, Inc , to advocate for UT Tyler to provide for free menstrual products in female bathrooms throughout campus. Hicken, a student athlete and active participant in student government, would make a excellent leader for this chapter due to her leadership experience and administrative skill. Yet, PERIOD is a radical egalitarian outfit that demands universities pay-up for feminine products in the name of breaking "financial misogyny." Consequently, it asserts that access to feminine products is a human right. Regardless of Hicken's capable leadership, here are five reasons why I think demanding that the University paying for free menstrual products is a bad idea. 1. Poor quality products. Although menstrual products costs between $7 and $15 per month, purchases for a student body with over 50 percent women could signif...