Yep, that’s the word they used. “Purge.”

In a post on the Young Americans for Freedom blog, it was announced today that the group has “voted to purge Rep. Ron Paul” from its National Advisory Board because of his “delusional and disturbing alliance with the fringe Anti-War movement.”

YAF was founded by William F. Buckley in 1960 as a conservative counterweight to the liberal student activist organizations of its day.

Update | Ron Paul won the CPAC presidential straw poll today. His political director had this to say about the purge: “I hadn’t heard of YAF doing anything in years, I thought they were defunct.”

I thought this was an Egypt joke when I saw it on Twitter two minutes ago, but according to this link it’s true — José Ramón de la Torre, the president of the University of Puerto Rico has just resigned.

More soon.

Update | Confirmation of the resignation, but no new details, from Primera Hora.

Second Update | Eduardo Ibarra, former President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Puerto Rico — and a UPR Rio Piedras alumni, is calling for the police presence at UPR to be replaced by “a group of graduates who have credibility and trust among students and entire university community.” This alumni group would “act as moderators in guiding and directing the institution to students without restrain their freedom of expression.”

Well, I’ve heard of other countries where the students take a stand,
They’ve even helped to overthrow the leaders of the land.
Now, I wouldn’t go so far as to say we’re also learning how…
But when I’ve got something to say, sir, I’m gonna say it now.

–Phil Ochs, 1966

Virginia’s House of Delegates this week passed a bill that would block all undocumented immigrants from attending the state’s public colleges and universities. To my knowledge, only one state — South Carolina — currently imposes such a ban.

Virginia’s bill, House Bill 1465, was one of about a dozen bills recently passed by the Republican-controlled Virginia House that would impose new restrictions or penalties on undocumented immigrants.

HB 1465 passed by a vote of 74-25 in the House of Delegates, which has a 59-39 Republican majority. It now goes to the Virginia state Senate, which is controlled by Democrats by a slim 22-18 margin.

Professors at the University of Puerto Rico have called a 24-hour strike in support of student activists who have been subjected to harsh discipline by university officials and police.

Students at UPR have been engaging in actions for a year in opposition to tuition hikes, and the university has moved in recent months to squelch the protests. This week a judge lifted a ban on demonstrations on campus and re-instated a suspended student leader, but new clashes with police followed. Yesterday police “indiscriminately” beat activists with batons in an incident that ended in 21 student arrests.

More info and photos at the Occupy CA blog.

Update | In a strongly-worded editorial, the Puerto Rico Daily Sun is calling on Puerto Rico’s governor to end the police occupation of the UPR campus. Key quote: