[4][2] The group opposed what it viewed as "radical multiculturalism, socialism, and mass immigration" and a "poisonous and bigoted leftist campus climate".

YWC members say it's meant to symbolize Charles Martel, who stopped the impending Islamic expansion into Europe during its early years.

[5] YWC members engaged in a range of activities, including protesting a performance of The Vagina Monologues and a presentation by poet Emanuel Xavier, and bringing speakers such as Tom Tancredo, Robert Spencer, and Bay Buchanan to university campuses.

[13] On April 14, 2009, campus police at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used pepper spray and the threat of tasers against protesters outside the room where Tom Tancredo was scheduled to speak to YWC against in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants.

UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Holden Thorp and UNC System President Erskine Bowles called Tancredo to apologize for the incident.

[14] The head of the American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina said that the video of the incident was "chilling" and "de facto censorship".

On September 18, 2009, Elliot Cramer, the faculty adviser for the University of North Carolina branch of the YWC, resigned after writing in an e-mail that he had a gun and knew how to use it.

Thorp then contacted Cramer, expressing concern that this e-mail might be used against the university and ultimately asked him to resign from the faculty adviser position.

[19] After leaving YWC in 2012, DeAnna left the Leadership Institute for World Net Daily, where he wrote many articles over the next five years, mostly without a byline.

[19] At the same time, DeAnna wrote hundreds of articles for white nationalist publications (including Radix Journal, Counter-Currents, American Renaissance, and VDARE) under the pen names James Kirkpatrick and Gregory Hood.