The College Republicans want to bring Ann Coulter to campus. Unfortunately, due to the liberal bias of the Missouri Students Association, they can’t.

False. Real story:

The College Republicans planned to bring Ann Coulter to campus. They set a date and though we did not get them to say Coulter confirmed coming to campus, all plans were made. Then they went to MSA.

This issue with this is MSA doesn’t just sponsor events. It’s part of MSA bylaws that students must involve MSA in event planning when they want funding. MSA looks at a variety of factors when deciding whether or not to host, such as how many students would come, the speaker’s benefit to students and whether or not the organization asking for money followed the rules.

Although it’s fair to say a big name such as Ann Coulter would likely have a large audience, the simple fact is that College Republicans failed to turn in their paperwork in time. They didn’t follow the rules, and now they have to miss out.

Nobody likes bureaucracy, but even more, people don’t like hearing about conspiracies and false political agendas.

It’s ludicrous for College Republicans to accuse MSA of a liberal agenda because they’re upset.

For starters, it came up during the election of MSA President Eric Woods that he had been active in College Republicans earlier in his college career. Unless Woods is actually a super sneaky spy, it’s doubtful he has some sort of liberal bias where he plans to shoot down any attempts at a conservative speaker. S.E. Cupp, anyone?

Not that the political affiliations of MSA are actually a factor. It just adds to the ridiculousness of these allegations.

College Republicans, like any other group, has the right to request funding. If they fail to meet funding requirements, there are a couple of options:

1. Have another offensive affirmative action bake sale and raise the money
2. Find other ways to fund the speaker
3. Suck it up and try again next year

Even if MSA decided to take pity on the situation and give them the funding, there is no money for it. It already allocated this part of its budget to student organizations that actually followed procedures.

It’s time for the College Republicans to stop mirroring our broken congress with their political allegations and simply own up. Perhaps a simple “whoops” is in order here.