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Imperialism, Eugenics, and Hypocrisy

By Anonymous Anne, on September 25, 2012

Imagine a class at UC Berkeley that argued to push Western Culture upon undeveloped nations—even in cases when other nations asked us to stay out. Liberals would explode with cries of “imperialism!,” and the class would not last very long.

Louis Farrakhan Delivers Controversial Speech at UC Berkeley

By Oliver Darcy, on March 12, 2012

Amid controversy, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, delivered a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. During Saturday's speech, Farrakhan made a number of anti-semetic and racist remarks.

Farrakhan told the audience that they "like to sugarcoat things so you can get along with your former slave masters . . . This is what you call an education in white supremacy. So when you come out, you come out bowing to them."

Crazy Liberal Courses on Berkeley

By M Fincher, on February 17, 2012

In the coming weeks Campus Reform will be introducing two new projects.  

As a new series on Campus Reform will be analyzing entire course catalogues of various American colleges and universities to determine how liberal leaning these school's curriculums are.

While researching different course catalogues our team found some
truly outrageous left wing classes offered at American universities.


We wanted to ensure that these particular courses were given the emphasis and attention they deserved.  As a result we will now be highlighting a few of these courses in blog-post form every week to accompany our analysis.

University of California Berkeley Adminstration, Student Govt. Stifle Free Speech

By Charles Cox, on October 11, 2011

Recently the College Republicans at the University of California Berkeley unleashed a firestorm of the debate and controversy when they held a bake sale to expose the hypocrisy of affirmative action. Dubbed the "Increase Diversity Bake Sale," it featured a sliding scale of prices for baked goods based on race and gender.

Racist Bake Sales in America: What Racism is Like in America Today

By Caleb Yee, on September 28, 2011

Today the most controversial bake sale in history was held at UC Berkley by the College Republicans. (Typical Tea Party racists huh?)

So what was this sale all about?

Here was the menu for today's "Increase the Diversity" bake sale:

- White/Caucasian students, $2 for each baked good.

- Asians/Asian-Americans, $1.50.

- Latinos/Hispanics, $1.

- Blacks/African-Americans, 75 cents.

- Native Americans, 25 cents.

Berkeley, the Right to Offend, and the Need for Guts on Campus

By Adam Weinberg, on September 27, 2011

Following up on Charles Cox's coverage of the upcoming "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" at UC Berkeley, it's worth taking a moment to study this scenario from a media and speech perspective for your benefit as a leader and activist.

There is no reason in a sane campus environment that anyone outside Sproul Plaza should even know that the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) are holding an Affirmative Action Bake Sale. The Affirmative Action Bake Sale is an old event idea (almost as old as campus conservative clubs themselves) that shouldn't be a surprise to find on campuses any longer.

But the BCRs are getting front page media interest and a level of heat on campus that apparently justified another one of Berkeley's famous (infamous?) emergency Student Senate meetings where offended students come to complain and initiate a politically-motivated gang up. Why is that?

Before saying too much in the way of congratulations for the BCRs, I want to pick on Berkeley conservatives and libertarians for a moment - Berkeley to me is generally a disappointing campus for conservative activism because it doesn't live up to its potential. Berkeley is so far to the left institutionally that these kinds of dust ups could literally happen every other day with effective opposition. 

But too often the students there follow the advice of their opponents in expressing themselves by holding speaking events, debates and town halls and apologizing for or putting aside their strongest positions instead of doing what works to build power: effective opposition activism.

College Republicans' Bake Sale Causes Media Freak Out

By Charles Cox, on September 27, 2011

To protest the affirmative action like bills CA Senate 185 and 387, which would put forth new racial and gender based requirements for college admissions, University of California College Republicans have decided to hold... a bake sale.

Cal-Berkeley Offers Course To Fight Racism...By Any Means Necessary

By Timothy Dionisopoulos, on September 07, 2011

We have all heard of absurd college courses.  Leave it to UC-Berkeley to take it to the next level. 

The public ivy is now offering students college credit to advocate on behalf of an organization that promotes affirmative action and the rights of illegal immigrants.  The Daily Caller reports that the two credit course is called "Fighting to Learn, Learning to Fight:  Building the Movement for Public Education and Equality".

The class involves working with an organization called BAMN, which is a radical leftist activist group that advocates for equality and integration by "any means necessary".  The core of the course focuses on how to fight racism, overcome the "New Jim Crow," and effectively fight for liberation. 

A Great New Resource for Defending Israel on Campus

By Adam Weinberg, on November 24, 2010

Israeli and Jewish students have sometimes been singled out with vicious language and publications by activists determined to divest and politically alienate UC campuses from the State of Israel.

At a recent forum of Jewish community members in Orange County, University of California President Mark Yudof, who is also Jewish, reminded the assembly that he is legally powerless to prevent such speech on his campuses. "Censorship won't work in terms of the legalities of the situation," he explained. "Censorship is not the way of the Jewish people. That's what many people are asking me to do, and I cannot do that."

President Yudof got it right. The answer to really opposing and defeating radical elements on college campuses, after all, has never been to clamp down on student expression. You're going to need those freedoms if you're hoping to take your campus community in a new, more enlightened direction on the Middle East issue.

Freedom itself makes no guarantees, of course, and that is why you owe it to your principles to learn how to win against some very well-organized liberal movements. For students who are interested in defending Israel and other free socities on campus, you have organizations like StandWithUs to stand with you through their newest, exclusive resource: a website dedicated to helping students defeat anti-Israel divestment efforts.

Censorship at the Home of the Free Speech Movement

By Casey Given, on November 16, 2010

 

The following is the original draft of an op-ed I wrote for The Daily Californian that was published today: