Student groups at California college call for increase in funding for all but ‘Zionist’ clubs

Student groups at California Polytechnic State University, led by the Black Student Union, are calling on the university to increase the funding of all cultural clubs at the university except those that are “aligned with Zionist ideology.”

The Black Student Union, along with other student organizations, have created a list of demands in the wake of an incident last month, in which a member of a campus fraternity wore blackface during the university’s multicultural weekend.

Among the demands by the so-called Drylongso Collective are training for all sororities and fraternities in “Structural Inequality, Sexual Consent, and Cultural Awareness”; devoting more than $55,000 — the cost of security for a 2017 campus lecture by Milo Yiannopoulos — to several ethnic and cultural departments for upgrades in staff and programming; an endowed professorship for the Ethnic Studies Department; and a graduation requirement of courses in ethnic studies.

“We want an increase in ASI (Associated Students, Inc.) funding for ALL cultural clubs, with the exception of organizations that are aligned with Zionist ideology,” the document also says.