Students at Loyola University New Orleans are continuing their efforts in starting an officially recognized Turning Point USA chapter at Loyola University New Orleans after repeated failures to convince the school’s student government association to allow one.
Anistin Murray, a freshman student involved with the chapter-starting efforts, attended TPUSA’s 2025 AmericaFest and discussed with Fox News the situation that her and fellow students are doubling-down on.
“We don’t want to step on our university’s toes, but we are not backing down,” Murray told Fox News. “They said that, you know, it does make a lot of the students feel uncomfortable and that it will bring a lot of hate and negativity and all this disruption to the university, which I find quite sad because that’s not what an organization is meant to push.”
The student government’s disposition toward TPUSA has been a major factor in the chapter’s denial, even with some members voting in favor of the organization, according to Murray.
“You know, they say that they stand for the majority of the students and the student body at Loyola, but I think to undermine that, there were people who voted yes to have a Turning Point at Loyola,” Murray said.
The ethos of TPUSA, in terms of open dialogue with those holding different views, she continued, ought to be welcome on campus.
“Just because people disagree with us does not mean that there needs to be uncivil discourse,” Murray said. “…[w]e can talk civilly and understand that we disagree, but we’re hearing each other and understanding that we both come from different places.”
Murray said that this topic was “reiterated a lot” during the student government discussions over allowing TPUSA on campus.
