A student accused her college of letting classmates call her something outrageous, now a congressman is getting involved and the school won’t talk

A college in Wisconsin is dealing with complaints from a student who says the school didn’t help when she and others were harassed online. The student wanted to start a conservative club on campus, but says things got ugly fast. Now a congressman has stepped in to find out what really happened, but the college won’t talk to him.

According to Fox News, Jocelyn Jordan goes to Beloit College and tried to set up a local chapter of Turning Point USA. It’s a conservative organization that has clubs at colleges around America. Jordan says everything seemed fine until she and her friends started posting about their new club on social media in the middle of October. That’s when the harassment started.

People began posting nasty images and messages online that referred to Jordan and the other students as “Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and White supremacists.” When Jordan first complained to the college, she says staff told her they couldn’t do anything because nobody knew who was posting the attacks.

This looks bad for everyone involved

Things got worse when the harassment turned into actual threats. Jordan filed a report with police, and only then did the college do something about it. The school ended up banning someone who used to be a student there and was working in the cafeteria.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden found out what was going on and wanted to understand the full story. His office called up Beloit College and arranged a phone call between the congressman and the school’s president, Eric Boynton. 

But then things took an odd turn. Just a few hours before the scheduled call, a lawyer working for the college got in touch with Van Orden’s office. The lawyer explained that Boynton wouldn’t be joining the call anymore because his legal team advised him not to. Van Orden tried to call the lawyer back himself, but nobody picked up. He left a voicemail asking them to call him back, but he says nobody responded for two whole days.

The college has a different version of events. They told Fox News Digital that someone did call back on Wednesday morning. According to the school, their representative talked with Van Orden’s office for a while and Van Orden hasn’t called them back since then. Van Orden’s team says he plans to return their call soon.

Van Orden put out a statement saying “Our office reached out to Beloit College in good faith to discuss this matter and were blown off. That is unacceptable. Every student, regardless of political belief, deserves the right to organize, speak freely, and participate fully in campus life without fear of retribution.” The Wisconsin congressman is among several Republican lawmakers who have been taking on new campaigns in recent months.

Jordan also claims the college made it hard to start the club from the beginning. She says she asked multiple professors to help them get the club going, but everyone turned her down. Even the dean of students wouldn’t help. 

Someone suggested she should just start a similar club but leave out the Turning Point name. On top of that, a person in student government told her that even if she found someone to help, they still couldn’t start a Turning Point chapter because the national group apparently goes against the college’s rules about student behavior.

The college disagrees with Jordan’s claims. A spokesperson said they’ve been following all the normal rules and that every club has to meet the same standards. They also said they care about keeping students safe from threats and harassment. The school insists it wants “fostering respectful, open inquiry and encouraging a diversity of perspectives on campus.” The argument comes as political tensions on college campuses continue to rise across the country.