College is a wonderful and ever-changing period of a young adult’s life. It is a period of growing, changing, meeting new people and coming into contact with new influences. Unfortunately, for many young college students, they’re minds are easily molded by those around them — especially those who they look up to as idols and authoritative figures; their professors.

During my four years I spent attending a college, I had more than my fair share of run-ins with professors who would forcibly push false democratic propaganda onto us students by spewing false rhetoric and freely bashing Republican views and beliefs. But boy oh boy, should one ever speak out against the almighty Democrat, you’d be shunned and the conversation would immediately be over. Most of the time I would chime in with my thoughts, but I’ll admit there were times when I wasn’t in the mood to argue.

However, out of all the run-ins with the left-leaning teachers I had endured, none were quite as appalling as the incident a friend of mine had just gone through a couple of days ago. The one and only “spoiled brat,” Chelsea Clinton, had a speaking event in the city where my friend attends college. So, as I’m sitting in rush hour traffic a text message pops up on my phone; it reads “It’s pretty sweet that we’re required to go to Chelsea Clinton’s event today for class or we lose participation points.” Being the conservative that I am, my mouth dropped. I couldn’t believe that a college professor would have the audacity to send students to a pro-Hillary-related rally and tell them that the consequence of not attending it would be a reduction in their class grade.

The saddest part of all? It didn’t end at that. Today I got a text from that same friend telling me that he skipped the speaking event. He also informed me that they were required to write a short, online discussion post about their beliefs on “Whether government today is too big or too small.” My friend, who was also born and raise a hardcore conservative, said in his discussion that government was too prevalent and too powerful in America today, and that it should be smaller. His discussion post received a grade of 50% (keep in my his two previous discussion posts in this class both received 100%), and his lack of attendance at the pro-Hillary Clinton event dropped his class grade from a B to a C.

This is disgusting. This is unfair. And this, right here, is why we, as Republicans (or any other right-leaning political members), need to take a stand and fight for what we believe in. We need to spread the word about what we believe, why we believe in it and in what ways it can benefit those young, easily-molded minds around us. Extreme liberal professors and university personnel have become too large of an influence on the young students who are eager to learn, and not always in a good way. This is our time to create change, so let’s start… right… NOW.