Students Rally Against Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines at NJ University: ‘They’re Going to Keep Moving the Goalposts’

In collaboration with Young Americans for Liberty and Turning Point USA, a medical freedom advocacy group, NJStandsUp,  organized a rally in response to the university’s new requirement—introduced in March—that all students enrolled for in-person classes in 2021 fall semester must be vaccinated for COVID-19.

"Rutgers" spelled out in a hedge on the College Avenue campus in New Brunswick, N.J., in July 2016. Tomwsulcer/Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of Rutgers University students and their parents held a rally on the university’s New Brunswick, New Jersey, campus on May 21 to speak out against the school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.

The event was organized by Turning Point USA, Young Americans for Liberty, and NJ Stands Up, a medical freedom advocacy group, in response to the university’s new requirement—introduced in March—that all students enrolled for in-person classes for the 2021 fall semester must be vaccinated for COVID-19.