Khader Kakish set out his Fall semester with one goal in mind: to receive official club status from the University of California at Berkeley. With a team of half a dozen excited young activists, the YAL Chapter waited for months as the University threw everything plus the kitchen sink at them.

Khader learned that they would not be receiving club recognition because they were “too similar” to another conservative/ libertarian group on campus, despite the University having dozens of groups with similar progressive missions. The hypocrisy and discrimination was clear. Partnering with the Alliance Defending Freedom, Khader and company were able to file a federal lawsuit against the school. After a few months of bad publicity the University buckled, and agreed to eliminate the clause that hindered the YAL chapter, and hundreds of others from obtaining recognition.