Identity of Speakers
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Sam Raiti
Student
OtherManchester Community College Student
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Vicky Jaffe
Faculty/Staff
OtherDirector of Communications and Marketing at Manchester Community College
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Megan Conn
Faculty/Staff
OtherVice President of Student Affairs Megan Conn at Manchester Community College
Resources
Additional Information
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Incident Nature:
Recognized student group event
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Incident Political Orientation:
Not Clear -
Incident Responses:
University administration invoked formal speech code in response
State Campus Free Speech Act
Title IX or other federal statute
Other
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Incident Status:
No litigation
- Was Speech Code incident
Summary
On October 22, 2025, Manchester Community College student Sam Raiti was instructed to relocate his Turning Point USA table near the college’s main entrance by MCC Director of Communications and Marketing Vicky Jaffe, who stated that Turning Point USA was a conservative student organization engaged in political advocacy and that it disseminated “political ideas.”
Shortly thereafter, Vice President of Student Affairs Megan Conn also approached Raiti and instructed him to move the table to a more isolated area of campus. Conn stated that the location was not available for expressive activity and cited the college’s expressive activities policies as the basis for the directive, while acknowledging that the placement did not present a safety concern. She directed Raiti to move either inside the building or to “the grass area between the row of visitor parking and the next parking lot.”
Raiti was instructed to relocate his tabling activity and moved from the original entrance-area location to the designated alternative space. The incident occurred in a broader national context in which Turning Point USA campus activity had received heightened attention following the September 2025 assassination of its founder, Charlie Kirk, which increased scrutiny of the organization’s campus presence and related security and expressive activity policies.
On March 18, 2026, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a letter to Manchester Community College regarding the incident involving Raiti. The letter stated that administrators required him to relocate the table because of its political nature and argued that the directive raised First Amendment concerns in a public college forum, asserting that restrictions were applied based on viewpoint rather than neutral time, place, and manner rules.
Following the March 18, 2026 letter, the matter remained under review, with the dispute centered on whether MCC’s relocation directive imposed a content-based restriction on Raiti’s expressive activity in a public area of campus.
