Naomi Alene, student body president, was one of 17 senators who abstained from the final vote. She said she did so because she had been helping provide guidance to the subcommittee on the changes TPUSA needed to make to its constitution.

“One of the tactics TPUSA has (that) was concerning is the professor watchlist,” Alene said. “They also make very bold remarks and slander other individuals on their social media sites, which also raised concern.”

In an email to McGough, forwarded to The Courier by Cannon, Dean of Students Dan Kittle said the Student Senate had “closed the Turning Point possibility.”

“In short, I believe that the Student Senate body were concerned that the values of Turning Point, as evidenced by expressed tactics, were not in line with the values of Wartburg College,” Kittle wrote. “Objectively, I would just add that the voting results make clear that there were pervasive concerns that were shared by most student senators.”

Kittle said he would not comment on which “expressed tactics” he was most concerned about because Cannon and Russell have appealed the Student Senate’s decision, and Kittle heads the college committee deciding whether to allow the appeal.