I found an alternate internship placement for one of these students at the Alpha Agency, which is a local non-profit run by churches, and whose goal is to assist those women who choose to keep their babies. The agency provides everything from diapers and formula to deposits for apartments. While working with this student, the Alpha director indicated that the agency was unsuccessful in obtaining permission from the university administration for placing their literature at the Student Health Center. Planned Parenthood could do so, but not Alpha. It's not just the faculty who act as gatekeepers.
Faculty also maintain political influence over one another.
In department faculty meetings, political bumper stickers, buttons, petitions, and fund-raising requests are openly solicited. Heads nodded wisely all around the table. As a non-tenured faculty member in such an environment, you keep your mouth shut and hope nobody notices you. I gained some temporary respite from this pressure by pointing out that my husband was a small-business owner, and we could not take public political positions. Amazingly, this played well enough that I was given tenure in 1991, although suspicions were beginning to show on the part of some of my colleagues.