In May 2010, at the University of South Florida (USF), several students decided to come together and start a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter on their campus.
They met for an informational meeting, handed out flyers on campus and met at the campus food court after school twice to ensure they had all the requirements necessary to be a recognized club. After submitting the required information to the office of Student Involvement in May, the university finally replied to the group five months later on September 24th stating, in an email, that the purpose and mission statement of YAF is too similar to another group on campus and "that no other student organization can exist with the same or similar mission/purpose."
The administrator, Edna Miller Jones, told the students who wanted to start a YAF chapter on campus that their mission statement and purpose were to similar to that of the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL).
The students were shocked that they were denied, especially after reading the mission statement of YAL which is significantly different that YAF's mission statement.