Last month, CampusReform.org reported on the biased way in which student fees often find their way into the hands of left wing student associations at the expense of funding conservative groups on campus.

We specifically highlighted the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who violated student group the Badger Catholic's First Amendment rights by denying them any student fees while at the same time allocating the student group "Sex Out Loud" $100,000. The school administration was forced to back off after the Alliance Defense Fund helped Badger Catholic appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit who agreed that the group's rights were violated.

Student allocations fees are a major funding issue on college campuses across the country.  These fees are mandatory and must be paid in addition to a student’s tuition.  

Unfortunately the allocations process is usually run by biased administrators and left leaning student government associations.  These fees always find their way into the hands of left wing student associations at the expense of funding conservative groups on campus.

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is a prominent legal organization that specializes in protecting our “first liberty”, the right to religious freedom.  A large portion of their work involves defending religious student groups who frequently face problems in this skewed allocations process.

Most recently, the ADF helped Badger Catholic, a group at the University of Wisconsin in their case against the school’s administration.  Like any other student group on campus, Badger Catholic used student fees for leadership training, speakers, large group events, and retreats.

When President Obama came to Madison to rally his base, members of UW-Madison’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter were also there to hold him accountable.

"Get your programs here!" shouted activist students as they handed out 1500 brightly yellow colored pieces of literature that were designed to show the humor in the day’s events. The pages had a mock schedule of the speech highlights, including:

• Obama explains magic economics and how government printing funny money and running up trillion dollar debt brings prosperity to the people.
• Obama gets done speaking and you suddenly realize that unemployment is 17%, total US debt is $4 trillion...and none of his promises have come true.

Students waiting in line to see President Obama eagerly took the programs -- making YAL's event a great success.

On Tuesday, September 14th  the UW-Madison Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) attended the annual student organization fair at the Kohl Center. Hundreds of students from the University of Wisconsin attended the event.

The members of the Young Americans for liberty are trying to bring Congressman Dr. Ron Paul to UW-Madison to speak. Members of the Young Americans for Liberty collected approximately 100 signatures in just 2 hours. The group needs several hundred more signatures to get Congressman Paul to visit the school.

This post is part of CampusReform.org's guide to the nation's top 100 colleges. Each day, CampusReform.org profiles a different college, examines its political climate, and offers items of interest to conservative students, parents, and alumni. Click here to see the full list of college profiles.

The University of Wisconsin - Madison (Wisconsin) was founded in 1848 in the state capital of Wisconsin. It has since become the flagship school in the University of Wisconsin system, and today enrolls approximately 29,000 undergraduate students and more than 8,500 graduate students. Wisconsin consists of twenty associated colleges and schools, from agriculture and life sciences to engineering to liberal arts at the College of Letters and Science. The school is known for its academics, its research, and its Division I sports team: the Wisconsin Badgers, who have won 27 national championships.

Campus Life

There are 31 student groups at UW with a distinct partisan leaning of which 25 are liberal and six are conservative.

The 25 liberal student groups are Advocates for Choice, a pro-abortion organization; the Allies Program; the ACLU Student Alliance UW-Madison; Amnesty International; Campus Antiwar Network; Campus Women's Center; Coalition for Affordable Public Education; College Democrats; Environmental Studies Club; International Socialist Organization, Madison Campus Branch; LGTBI Equality NOW!; Midwest BLGBTA College Conference; Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) de UW-Madison; Popular Education Collective, which works "in solidarity against oppression"; Queer People of Color; Queer Student Alliance; Roosevelt Institution, a liberal student think tank; Sex Out Loud, which offers "sex positive education and activism"; Student Animal Legal Defense Fund;  Student Labor Action Coalition; Student Progressive Dane, which "promotes a progressive agenda in Dane County"; Students for a Fair Wisconsin, which advocates for gay marriage; Students for Choice; WISPIRG, a far-left lobbying group; and Women of the Scarred Earth, which "forms a collective in crearting art...to create dialogue around social and environmental justice."

The six conservative student groups are the College Republicans; The Badger Herald; Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which promotes free-market environmental solutions; the Federalist Society; Students for Life; and Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). The italicized groups are affiliated with CampusReform.org's Campus Leadership Program, which provides students with advice, assistance, and many kinds of support.

Several pro-life groups in Wisconsin have discovered the ugly truth that the University of Wisconsin in Madison has been illegally funding internships for medical students at abortion centers.

“The new documents obtained via an open records request by Pro-Life Wisconsin and the Alliance Defense Fund reveal that, since 2007, UW has spent more than $58,878 paying for abortion training.

State law prohibits the use of taxpayer funds to pay for elective abortions or to abortion centers.”