(LifeSiteNews) — Stanford University awarded a campus drag troupe five times more than a student veterans group, and a Muslim group more than every campus Christian group combined, according to financial records.
The Washington Free Beacon reviewed grant documents detailing funds allocated for student organizations, which are funded by a quarterly Activities Fee paid by every student. Students also vote on the recipients.
The documents show $50,000 for Stanford Drag Troupe (which has hosted drag queens such as “Slut the Rock Johnson” and events such as the “Are You Smarter Than A Sexpert” trivia contest), as compared to just $10,000 to Stanford Undergraduate Association of Veterans. The sum is also substantially more than that given to multiple orchestras.
The Muslim Student Union, meanwhile, received $175,000, “more than the budget for every Christian student group combined,” according to the Beacon. The Stanford Republican Club, by contrast, received $7,549.25.
University spokeswoman Angie Davis defended the grants as a “student-led process,” yet the university sets the criteria for approving prospective groups, including whether it considers a group to “complement the university’s mission” or “demonstrate a broadly recognized need that is not currently being met.”
“For the vast majority of students, this is compulsory funding for organizations they may never use, have never heard of, or would find objectionable,” responded Stanford sophomore Ben Marek. “Most students are left unwittingly funding clubs that they’ve never heard of, unless they figure out how to wade through the high-friction opt-out bureaucracy.”
American institutions of higher education have long been recognized as heavily dominated by left-wing bias and historical revisionism, conditioning students to reject religion, traditional morality, and free markets and to view America as a uniquely malignant force in the world, a society systemically rigged against the poor and minority groups, with identity-based grievances forming the foundation of so-called “social justice” and “intersectional” approaches to education.
LGBT groups arguably enjoy the highest standing in the current social justice hierarchy. The indoctrination of children with left-wing ideology on sexuality, race, and other agenda items has long been a major concern in American schools and libraries, from book shelves to drag events to classroom materials to even “transitioning” troubled children without parental input. Many schools have also displayed hostility to the rights and employment of individual teachers who refuse to go along with such agendas. Across the nation, controversy has also erupted in recent years over schools and libraries adopting books that expose sexual themes and activity to children, often in graphic detail and with pornographic imagery depicting specific sexual acts.
The toll of such an activist bent often extends well beyond politics. In 2024, insiders from the University of California-Los Angeles’ (UCLA’s) prestigious David Geffen School of Medicine warned that the school’s diversity fixation had led to a crisis in which more than half of students in various cohorts admitted since 2020 fail standardized tests for basic medical knowledge of subjects ranging from emergency medicine and family medicine to internal medicine and pediatrics.
In response, the Trump administration has issued executive orders to deny federal funds to educational entities that indoctrinate students through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, among other executive actions to combat so-called “woke ideology” in education.