The blog Cloudminder, which is devoted to University of California issues, has posted an update on the selection of new student regent Sadia Saifuddin for the up-coming school year.
http://cloudminder.blogspot.com/2013/07/uc-regent-pattiz-on-new-student-regent.html
A member of the Muslim Student Association at Berkeley, Saifuddin's nomination drew some opposition largely due to her activism against Israel. I have previously written on this issue posting open letters sent to the regents.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/open-letter-to-uc-regents-re-sadia.html
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2013/07/spme-article-on-nomination-of-uc.html
The controversy also drew the interest of the LA Times. Below is a Times op-ed regarding Saifuddin's nomination. (Both of two below links are also on the Cloudminder article.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-regents-uc-student-representative-sadia-saif-20130718%2C0%2C7402394.story
That has drawn the below two letters in response, one from Regent Norman Pattiz.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-0723-tuesday-student-regent-20130723,0,4544885.story
Of course, what the Times missed in this story was Saifuddin's alleged role in the campaign against UC Santa Cruz Hebrew Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin of the AMCHA Initiative for having the temerity to complain about anti-Semitism on UC campuses, much of it fostered by the various MSA chapters, SJP chapters, and many of their invited speakers over the years-you know, people like Amir Adel Malik Ali.
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