UCLA's Diversity Requirement Under Fire

Hat tip Daily Bruin




We have previously reported about the drive to require incoming UCLA students to take a "diversity course", so they can be properly educated as to their "white privilege" and all that other nonsense UCLA is teaching the kids.


"Privileged bruin"


In the below Daily Bruin Op-Ed page, a group of faculty have written  a letter urging that the diversity requirement (that they themselves have voted on and passed) be adopted. To make it even more ridiculous they attack the suggestion that a campus-wide faculty vote be taken on the measure as being undemocratic.

http://dailybruin.com/2015/02/09/submission-diversity-requirement-critical-for-future-campus-governance/

"Nevertheless, a small group of opponents has undermined this democratic process, taking unprecedented steps to impede the adoption of this curricular change by forcing a campus-wide faculty vote."

                                   Sounds like the Democratic Peoples' Republic of California at Los Angeles

Naturally, I added my comment. I also inserted something in there about the two ladies who teach "Chicano/a Studies".  I can't believe they are still calling it Chicano Studies. When I was growing up in the West LA area about a mile from the UCLA campus, Chicanos is what the kids in the gangs called themselves. They were the guys who wore khakis and Sir Guy shirts. (Full disclosure: I did too for a couple of years.) My wife, who is Mexican, would be insulted if someone called her a Chicana.