The assistant professor of legal studies at the Lakewood school made the declaration on KLZ radio, according to a Huffington Post article Thursday by left-leaning Colorado blogger Jason Salzman, who pens the well-regarded BigMedia.org blog.

In the broadcast, producer Dan Meurer asked Ellis about safe spaces and safety pins at Colorado Christian, a reference to symbols of liberal unity after Donald Trump’s Nov. 8 upset victory.

“No, there are not, and if any of my students wear a safety pin and ask for a safe space, I will tear it off them and fail them in my class,” Ellis replied. “And they know it too. We have no snowflakes on campus.”

In the audio Salzman posts, Meurer replies, “I love Colorado Christian University.”

The school is a private university that doesn’t make its conservative leanings a secret. The former president is the late Bill Armstrong, a conservative titan who helped shape Ronald Reagan’s agenda as a U.S. senator. Until this year, John Andrews, a former state Senate Republican leader who was a Reagan appointee and speechwriter for Richard Nixon, was the director of the conservative Centennial Institute at CCU.

“Prof. Ellis owes students at Colorado Christian University-and the rest of us-an explanation for the comment. It’s not clear from the recording that she was joking,” Salzman said in an e-mail to ColoradoPolitics.com Friday.

“This is a scary time for many people in our country, and Prof. Ellis shouldn’t refuse to talk to a progressive journalist like me who is just trying to find out what she really believes and why.”

We emailed the professor seeking a comment and have not heard back. After our attempt to reach her, though, she did reply to an earlier request from Salzman for a comment via the same e-mail account. She sounded a bit, well, snowflake-ish:

I would like to apologize and clarify the comments I made while co-hosting KLZ 560 talk radio this week in my personal capacity, and not on behalf of Colorado Christian University,”: she told Salzman, according to the e-mail he shared. “I certainly did not intend to offend anyone, and my comments were not intended to be taken literally. Please accept my genuine apology for any offense I might have caused. CCU is an institution that values free thinking, discussion, debate, tough questions, and our students are encouraged to think critically and creatively.

Jenna Ellis