Frank Scales, a biology major at the public campus, was elected SGA president in a campus-wide election held in April 2024. Eleven months later, however, he was ousted after the student-led association voted to impeach him.
CCP serves approximately 13,600 students at five campuses scattered across the famous city. A majority of the student population, 41%, is black.
The controversy over ousting Scales (pictured below) has been reported by The College Fix , which viewed school documents related to Scales’ ouster, and by radio host Todd Starnes.
College Fix editor Matt Lamb tells AFN it’s not clear what Scales said to trigger students and faculty so badly that students filled out complaints against him and subjected him to a disciplinary hearing.
“However, part of it is that he is vocally supportive of Donald Trump,” Lamb, citing CCP documents, says. “And that got him apparently accused of promoting toxic masculinity.”
In his story about Scales, Starnes cites a CCP letter to Scales that accused him of using “derogatory language in reference to people of color and other marginalized groups, disrupting queer-sponsored events, and being verbally abusive in your tone and words towards others (not just students).”
Scales himself provided numerous documents to Lamb and the Fix. One complaint form called him “racist.” A second complaint said his behavior has the “air of toxic white masculinity.”
That phrase is standard in race-based ideology, such as the the oppressor vs oppressed claim in critical race theory. In the push for diversity, equity and inclusion, straight white males are typically viewed as villains who are holding back minorities.
Looking ahead to the new school year, Scales told the Fix his plan this fall is to “spread the conservative movement behind enemy lines.”
Professor refused to 'associate' with Trump supporter
The College Fix also viewed an email from a CCP professor, Jeffrey Markowitz. The professor, an advisor to the SGA, informed the student body he was refusing to “associate in any way” with the new SGA president.
“His ethics and behaviors are in direct conflict with mine,” the professor wrote, “and I will no longer compromise my values.”
After he was impeached last spring, a detailed statement Scales posted to Instagram accused numerous people of working against him. He accused Professor Markowitz of refusing to help when Scales wanted to make changes to the SGA constitution. A second advisor also refused to cooperate, he said. The statement also accused the student dean of unfairly changing rules to initiate his impeachment and changed other rules to him from running for SGA president again.
Lamb points out Scales was also subjected to a disciplinary hearing that, at first, found him guilty of “Threatening Behavior/Harassment/Bullying,” but that charge was dropped after he appealed it.
Scales told the Fix he appealed on the grounds of insufficient evidence of violating campus policies.
A spokesman for the school refused to comment to the Fix for its story which suggests Scales’ story is likely true.
“The fact the school dropped the punishment,” Lamb argues, “should also mean the SGA should have removed its impeachment of him.”
