Fousesquawk on Assignment at UCSB

That's UC Skate Board if you've never visited the University of California at Santa Barbara campus. Here, bikes and skate boards  are the preferred way to get around, much to the discomfort of pedestrians. In fact, UCSB is home to what must be the world's only traffic circle for bicycles. I almost became a statistic while trying to get across it.

At any rate me and the missus and another couple were vacationing in Santa Barbara, so we decided to visit the campus, especially since it was the scene of a historic event just a couple of weeks ago, which I reported on here on my humble blog. That was when a courageous professor named Mireille Miller-Young rescued the campus from a couple of young female terrorists who were on campus with a -gasp- anti-abortion poster. This was especially offensive because it showed pictures of actual aborted  fetuses when a more sensitive approach would have been to show a drawing of a stork flying away with a baby-as I suggested subsequently in a reader comment in the campus fish wrap, the Daily Nexus-which I shall return to later in this piece. (You don't want to miss that.)

To continue, the heroic professor (who according to the report, has three degrees), challenged the terrorists, led a student chant against their hateful message, and then  in an especially heroic act, grabbed the offending poster from one of the girls and took it back to her office, fighting off the terrorists in an elevator before proceeding to her office where she ripped the poster into pieces.

Here is the actual video of this historic event. You should view this before continuing on to my photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLemX9QtUa4

So, being on the campus where history was written, I decided to trace the historic footsteps of this modern-day Joan of Arc and share photos of the spots where history happened with my loyal readers.

Above is the Free Speech area where the encounter began.

Above, you see Girvatz Hall. In the video, this is where you see our hero being followed by the two female terrorists. (It was at this point in the video that she called them terrorists-speaking truth to power I believe is the correct expression.) In the background, is the first of two 6-story buildings in which are housed the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and various other ethnic and feminist studies departments. As you traverse the hallowed halls, you see the distinguished professors' offices all plastered with various posters raging against the machine-Well, you get the picture.

And it was right here at this elevator bank that our hero fought off the terrorists and was able to retreat to the sanctuary of her office where she consigned the hate-filled poster to the dustbin of history where it belongs.

No, I was unable to catch a glimpse of the famous professor-turned-hero. No doubt she is in the Witness Protection Program. Too bad because I wanted to meet her and chat about the famous incident.

But there was one other piece of unfinished business for me since I was on the campus; I wanted to pick up the latest issue of the Daily Nexus to see if they had printed my submitted  thoughts on Vice Chancellor Michael Young's statement to the campus community regarding the incident.  Picking up a copy of the paper, I noted that it was not there.

But I do have a consolation prize for you Dear Readers. The below-linked article takes up the entire back page. You can see the title below. Reader warning: Graphic sexual content. The page even has a link to another article by the same writer about anal sex (XXX, of course).

http://dailynexus.com/2014-04-02/sucks-to-suck-until-today-a-gay-mans-guide-to-giving-good-oral/

(Don't blame me, Blogspot. This is right out of the UCSB campus paper. I didn't make it up.)

So if you have kids going to UCSB, don't shoot the messenger. Send your cards and mail to the UCSB Journalism Dept.