(THE COLLEGE FIX) — Vincent Wetzel, president of the Orange Coast College Republicans, recently stood before the leaders of his college and declared that as a homosexual Hispanic from a low-income household, he faces discrimination on campus — for being a Republican.

“Republicans are the most targeted minority on our campus, and it is the duty of this board to defend minority students,” he told the Orange Coast College board of trustees earlier this month.

Orange Coast College is the center of a nationwide dispute over a professor there, Olga Cox, who infamously declared to her human sexuality class after the election last year that “we have been assaulted, it’s an act of terrorism,” comments recorded and posted on YouTube. Wetzel was at the board meeting to protest the fact that Cox won teacher of the year.

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