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The University of California, Santa Barbara College Republicans won funding to bring conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to campus despite a vocal protest by students accusing the group of promoting “hate speech.” Funding for the Ben Shapiro event was eventually approved by a vote of 16-7 despite the presence of more than 100 students demanding that the request be rejected.

The University of California, Santa Barbara College Republicans have faced significant backlash for attempting to bring conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to campus, including protests of a funding request meeting as well as physical threats from a student senator.

According to a statement on the UCSB College Republicans Facebook page, funding requests for speaker events must be approved by both the Associated Students at the Finance & Business Committee (ASF&B), as well as the Student Senate. The CRs were able to get their event approved by ASF&B, but began to face problems when the request moved to the Senate.

“Upon discovering that our funding request had been approved by ASF&B, the UCSB Black Student Union organized an event entitled ‘Senate BLACKout,’ taking place at the Senate meeting on Wednesday, November 2nd, in order to protest ASF&B’s vote to fund our event as well as to demand that the Senate nullify ASF&B’s decision,” the CRs wrote in an official statement.

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