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West Point Bans All Minority Clubs [1]
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Date: 2025-02-05
By summary memorandum West Point has banned all clubs for minorities from the campus. Some of these clubs have existed for decades, including the National Society of Black Engineers Club, have existed for decades. The January 4th memorandum states that it is “in accordance with recent Presidential Executive Orders.”
The memo states that the listed “are hereby disbanded.” The directive states it “cancels all trip sections, meetings, events, and other activities of these clubs.” I wonder what happens to money already spent by clubs on future trips, events or activities. The clubs are forbidden to even informally meet on campus.
The specific clubs ordered immediately disbanded are:
Asian Pacific Forum Club
Contemporary Cultural Affairs Seminar Club
Corbin Forum
Japanese Forum Club
Korean-American Relations Seminar
Latin Cultural Club
National Society of Black Engineers Club
Native American Heritage Forum
Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers
Society of Women Engineers Club
Spectrum
Vietnamese-American Cadet Association
The above clubs are also directed to “unpublish, deactivate, or otherwise deactivate all public facing content.” This means they have to remove all of their websites. Attempting to go to their websites now results in the “Oops 403-Forbidden” message appearing above. Clicking the “homepage” button takes you to the West Point home page.
All other clubs are to cease activities until they are reviewed for compliance with the new President’s Executive Orders and the Army policies stemming from those EOs.
Some very interesting censorship going on at West Point. Do you think they will ban religious clubs too? As it turns out the West Point Muslim club gets that 403 code above. But the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) website is alive and active.
I have to wonder what the boundaries are for this. Could cadets form a club around particular culinary tastes. Could there be “Cadets Italian Cooking Club?” Or could even the chess club hold a “Taco Night Tournament”?
How about history clubs? I assume a Military History Club is fine at West Point, but if an American Military History Club is okay, how can one deny a Japanese Military History Club? Or African Military History Club?
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