March Madness on UC Campuses

The little rascals at UC Berzerkley

Earlier this month, I posted several articles on the demonstrations going on at UC-Irvine and all the other UC campuses as a result of tuition hikes and budget decreases. On March 4, several UC campuses experienced student "walkouts", in which some professors and even union leaders participated. In Oakland, about 150 people were arrested as students shut down a major highway to show their "anger". Elsewhere, activist leaders with bullhorns led the students through clever chants such as, "whose campus?"-"Our campus!", "Whose street?"-"Our street", and this one...

"They say cut back,-We say fight back!"


Meanwhile, timid university leaders prattled on about how the students "were engaging in the time-honored practice of protesting, and ........."

OK, I won't torture you further.

What the university administrators should have been saying is that the money isn't there, folks-deal with it. Instead, the leadership at UCSD, which has concurrently experienced a rash of troubling but still mysterious racial incidents, is seriously negotiating some 32 demands by the Black Student Union including establishing a resource center for African-American students.

Where are they going to get the money? Or has anyone bothered to ask?

But back to the budget issue. In my view, many UC students are acting like spoiled children whose parents have just lost all their possessions, but still demanding all their new toys. What don't they understand, here? No money means no money.

But not to the spoiled kids at UC's universities (not all of them-most of the kids at UC Irvine didn't bother to march out of class-they were too busy attending class.) No doubt, there is a segment of the student body that has a sense of entitlement that doesn't recognize that the money isn't there. Do they understand why it isn't there?

In reality, these kids should take their demonstrations to the State Capitol in Sacramento, which is the scene of the crime. After decades of profligate spending by a Democrat-controlled legislature and that boob governor, Arnold Katzenjammer, following in the deep footsteps of Grey Davis, nothing is left. If the students want to find more villains, perhaps they should ask some of those demonstrators leading the marches-the guys with the bullhorns. Yes, I am talking about those union guys-who own Sacramento, especially the government sector unions. They haven't been hurt by all this. They have been protected.



Students might also ask how many times they have opposed the crazy spending on every liberal program that has come down the pike and helped elect radical Democrats who have put these programs into law. They might also ask the cost of all these silly departments that sprout like weeds on university campuses. Do we really need all these ethnic departmental chairs, women's studies, gay, lesbian and transgender studies departments? Or coulkd they be sensibly reduced to individual courses? What about those insane departments up at UC Santa Cruz (America's Wackiest University)? I am talking about the Community Studies and History of Consciousness departments.

"History of Consciousness!!??"

Yes! Run by Angela Davis, no less (big-time Communist radical back in the 60s, for all you UCSC Community Studies majors).

Have the students ever considered their own involvement in bringing about the bankruptcy that plagues California? Consider the liberal political influence their campuses bring to the communities in which they are located. It is not insignificant when you have a campus with tens of thousands of students and faculty in a community like Irvine or Santa Cruz to name just a couple. Do you wonder why we have so many loopy liberals up in Sacramento who still want to tax and spend?

Maybe these students who want to protest the tuition hikes and budget cuts should stand with their posters in front of a giant mirror.