Old New
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-bawer/u-cal-s-new-logo-a-sign-of-the-times/
The University of California has adopted a new seal, which looks more like the logo of one of President Obama's favored solar energy companies than a university seal. Bruce Bawer has written a critical argument on not only the seal, but the current condition of the UC system. Once again, regrettably, my own campus, UC Irvine is mentioned in a negative light. (Need you ask why?)
“They wanted something that would reflect the innovation, the character of California – just more modern, user-friendly.”
Sadly, I have to agree. True education, at least in the humanities, has been replaced by a post-colonial, anti-US, anti-Western Civilization bias that infects the classroom. The main issue of the day on UC campuses is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which Israel is painted as a racist, apartheid state that has stolen the land from the poor indigenous Palestinian people and thus, has no right to exist or defend itself. This is what students hear as they are walking around campus, and this is what they hear in the classroom.
And, as I have charged many times, anti-Semitism sprouts its ugly head whenever the topic of Israel arises, while the university wrings its hands and does nothing.
"Of course, if “they” really wanted something that would reflect the way things are going in California in 2012, how about – well, hmm, how do you come up with a simple, catchy image that represents productive members of society being taxed to death, corporations fleeing the state, and an endless stream of non-taxpaying, undocumented aliens flooding in across the border?"
I have an idea:
The seal changes nothing.
"Why not?"
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I wonder how much this "design" cost the system? $100,000? $250,000? $1 million?
Great question. I wish I had thought of that. Great way to spend money when the budget is crunched and tuitions are going up. Or was it possible thanks to the voters passing Prop 30 in November?
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