What Should I Major In?

None of this should be shocking:

EDsmart used data for the 2020-21 school year from the Department of Education to rank degree majors in California by median earnings three years after graduation for those with bachelor's degrees. Some degree programs listed are only offered at one college in the state. When a major is offered at multiple colleges, the analysis lists the median earnings between them.

Most lucrative college majors in California:

#1. Mathematics and Computer Science ($166,134)
#2. Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians ($102,821)
#3. Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology ($98,074)
#4. Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($94,750)
#5. Construction Engineering ($91,338)

Least lucrative college majors in California:

#1. Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language ($17,472)
#2. Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology ($19,275)
#3. Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems ($23,563)
#4. Dance ($24,119)
#5. Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management ($25,317)

Notice anything, uh, interesting about the first list?

You can add Aggrieved Victims Studies to the latter list.

Responsibility

Leftists have such a strange view of responsibility.  For example, an adult can't be responsible for a student loan contract he/she signed, but a child can make choices about getting body parts cut off.  I'm all for personal responsibility, which is why I think this sets such a bad example:

Contraceptive access throughout California high schools was on the docket for Wednesday’s Senate Education Committee meeting, where people in support and opposition took the stand.

If it the bill progresses — and eventually passes in the Senate — free condoms would be available to all students starting the 2024-2025 school year...

Contraceptives would be free to students. Schools would also be required to post at least one notice with information specifying how to use the condoms.

Wednesday’s discussion revolved around high school students, but the language in the bill specifies it would apply to grades 7 through 12, which includes two years of middle school for some.

If passed and signed by the governor, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. It would also require schools to provide sexual health information with students and make them aware of the availability of free contraceptives.

Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, coauthored the bill...

Teens who are sexually active face significant barriers accessing contraceptives, including stigma, judgmental providers, limited transportation and cost, said Maura Decker, associate professor at the Institute for Health and Policy Studies School of Medicine, at the UC San Francisco, said during the public comment Wednesday.

I call B.S. on that last part.

In December an Instagram poll was conducted by the Teen Source, a sex education site for California teens, where 55% of teens voted that they would agree to use condoms if they were easier to obtain, Menijivar said.

If you're a big enough boy to have sex, you can buy your own condoms.  "I'd use them more if they were free" is such a childish cop-out.

Just another California leftie proposal to bypass parents and sexualize teenagers.

The End Result of "Equity"

There's no moral or educational justification for keeping students from accelerating in math and achieving.  SF's  shibboleth of "equity" is nothing more than kneecapping high achieving students rather than raising up the bottom students, and at least the authors of this column recognize that:

All parents want opportunities for their children to excel academically. However, reaching the top in math at San Francisco Unified School District, is like climbing a cactus tree. It’s going to hurt.

At SFUSD, a math curriculum limiting student advancement currently exists; especially hindering socio-economically disadvantaged students from advancing in math. This is counter to what parents expect from a school district.

In 2014, SFUSD denied access to algebra 1 for all eighth graders, regardless of their preparation and motivation, justifying this with the word “equity.” SFUSD subsequently claimed success, but inquiring community members were denied access to supporting data. Obtaining data through public records requests, the district’s success claims were exposed to be grossly misrepresented.

SFUSD claimed algebra 1 repeat rates were reduced, but this occurred by removing a post-course test requirement. SFUSD claimed an increased enrollment in advanced classes, but this occurred by calling a class “advanced” that was not. A lack of transparency, and manipulating data to justify policies, demonstrates how SFUSD operates.

The benefits of eighth-grade algebra 1 are clearly explained in an open letter signed by nearly 1,800 science, technology, engineering and math professionals. This course initiates a five-year pathway to STEM readiness culminating in AP calculus in 12th grade.

In practice, SFUSD’s delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds...

When parents have to "work around" the roadblocks put up by the school district, something is wrong.   Read the whole thing.

Newsollini's Hissy Fit

It doesn't matter that it was a stupid policy in the first place, so that Governor Newsollini could like like he was striking a blow for dingbat-left causes.  It's nothing but virtue signalling, and maybe someday it will be overturned:

A lawmaker in California is hoping to overturn the state's ban on government funding for travel to states with laws they find discriminatory.

Since 2016, California has been steadily adding to its list of U.S. destinations barred from state-funded travel. The practice began in retaliation to North Carolina enacting a law requiring people to use the bathrooms that corresponded with their biological sex.

State Sen. Toni Atkins is seeking to overturn the prohibition, saying that the cumbersome regulations should be replaced with a marketing campaign promoting inclusion.

The San Diego State men's basketball team, for example, made the Final Four for the first time in its history, but is banned from paying for travel to Texas to compete. The NCAA is footing the bill, according to San Diego State...

Currently, Californians are prohibited from government-expensed travel to a total of 23 states. 

The ban has caused major issues outside of politics, such as sports teams at public universities that are unable to use state funds for many travel games.

However, many California officials are against repealing the ban on the grounds that it would be a tacit approval of laws they feel are discriminatory.

Firearms

 

Good talk.

The 2nd Amendment doesn't exist to protect hunting or to keep bad people out of your house, either.

Just clearing up a couple fallacies.  You're welcome.

Racist Tools (a double entendre)

This person, and those who think like she does, are fools:

A math education professor at the University of Illinois argued in a newly published book that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

Same fool I referred to in these three posts. 

Just so her stupidity doesn't go unchallenged:  math isn't "racist" and it doesn't perpetuate unearned privilege.  Math has no more power to do that than a hammer does; both are tools, tools which can be wielded for good or evil.  In that way they're like a word processor, which Gutierrez uses for evil.

A Re-Declaration of Independence

This piece by Jeff Goldstein is so awesome, so absolutely correct, that I'm going to post it here in its entirety:

Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud.

Be it so understood:

I refuse to “unpack white violence.” I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.” I will not — and in fact cannot — “examine my implicit biases.” I’m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me me.

I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.” I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands. I reject Cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex. I’m Jeff.

I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.” I am hostile to your sexualizing of children. I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech. I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master, or else the Useful Idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you and your ideology no power over me.

I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived. I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.

“Cultural appropriation” is merely culture: it expands to include, and it makes up the very fabric of a pluralist society. There’s no such thing as “digital blackface.” My whiteness is not “violent”; my sex is not “oppressive”; my religion doesn’t concern you; and my children are not yours to mold. Your beliefs will not be imposed on me. The State will not parent my sons.

“Queer theory” is “critical race theory” is “critical consciousness” is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined to raze norms, sow chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce being to collective conformity. I reject its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I will not comply. 

I will not mouth your slogans. I will not denounce on command. I am not your tool, and you are not my minder. I reject your social hectoring. I find abhorrent your authoritarian urges. I laugh at your disingenuous outrage. From me you will receive no apologies. I reject your premises entirely, and I hereby reclaim my time.

My speech is my own. I reject each of your excuses to silence me. I don’t ask for your protections. I can filter information without your interference, and I despise your presumption to protect me from myself.

I am your sworn enemy, as you are mine. I will not perform for you. I will not read from your script or dance in your follies. I utterly reject your revisionism, your ahistorical impertinence, your presentism, your self-appointed expertise. I will not bow before your theorists, nor admire your social prophets.

I am not a disease. My existence doesn’t “warm the planet.” I’m not interested in your “sustainability” concerns. I am not yours to manage.

I won’t eat your bugs, live in your pods, surrender my cars, or without consent be packed into your cities. I reject your charity. I unmask your intentions. I know what a woman is; I know that any member of any racial group can practice racism; I know that 2+2=4, regardless of how contingent you wish to make reality. I despise your ideology. I refuse your relativism. You are not the Elect, and I am not answerable to the various neuroses you wear as badges of honor.

I know you better than you know yourselves. You are conditioned. Programmed. Automotons who believe themselves sentient beings. Your intolerance of “hate” is not a virtue. It’s a ruse. An excuse to practice your own intolerance and luxuriate in your own hatreds. You are a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are that which you claim to despise, and I am that which you claim to be.

I see you. Clearly. And I aim to misbehave.

I strive to be self-sufficient. I honor the founding ideals of my country, and I work to live up to their measure. I recognize the great fortune of my birth. History does not frighten me. I reject your blood libels: I am not responsible for that which I didn’t do, nor are you victims of what was never done to you. I will not proclaim your goodness while knowing your evil.

I am a free man. You wish to take me from me. You will fail. I will win. And God willing, I will live to spit on your graves.

Outlaw.

Hear hear.

Worthy of Statuary Hall

Eight years ago I wrote about visiting Statuary Hall in the Capitol.  Each state is allowed two statues there, and there was talk then of replacing (now-Saint) Junipero Serra's statue from California because of his mistreatment of the local natives.  As I wrote then:

I was the first person my tour guide had ever encountered who know who Starr-King was, which explains why every once in awhile there's talk of replacing his statue with Ronald Reagan.  As long as California remains a dystopian "paradise", though, that will never happen.  But it's still interesting to see two men noted for their religions memorialized by California.

Here we are, all these years later, and there's still talk of replacing Serra.  (I note in this article that such statues are supposed to represent the individual's "full length", but you can see at the link above that Dr. King's does not.)  Who do the authors of that article think merits a statue in the Capitol?  Maya Angelou, Sally Ride, Cesar Chavez, Anna May Wong, and Snowshoe Thompson.  Sure, those people each accomplished something worthwhile in their lives, but I don't think any of them holds a candle to Ronald Reagan.  

You may as well put Mark Zuckerberg or Willie Mays on that list.  Or Elon Musk.  (Yes, I know you have to be dead to have a statue in Statuary Hall, but hopefully you get my point.)

The Science of Math

I like what I've seen so far:  The Science of Math

Democrats Are More Interested In Unions Than In Workers

In theory, I have nothing against unions.  When I had to give money to unions I was absolutely against forced unionism and I was against bad unions (unions that don't help their members), both of which were the case with me, but in most cases I think Americans should be allowed to join unions if they want to.  And bless Mark Janus for helping ensure that government workers, at least, no longer have to pay unions.

Under the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, states can still compel private employees to pay unions.  Over half the states in the union have passed right-to-work laws, which allowed workers to have jobs without having to pay money to a union.  Michigan, now run by leftie Democrats, is undoing what was done:

In a major victory for labor unions, Michigan on Friday became the first state in more than half a century to repeal a right-to-work law.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature, overturning a 2012 GOP law that allowed workers to choose not to join unions or pay union dues as a condition of employment, even if the union represents them in negotiations.

Michigan had been making some progress.  Now, back to the Rust Belt with them!

What Is Pornography And What Is Not?

Back in the olden days, when I was in high school, Larry Flint and pornography were in the news.  What's pornography?  "I know it when I see it" was a common saying.  I have no idea where the line is between pornography and art, but as with so many things, I know when we're far on one side or the other of the line:

A Florida principal was forced out of her job after parents complained about a Renaissance art lesson that featured a historic sculpture by Michelangelo — with one parent even calling it pornographic.

School leader Hope Carrasquilla resigned from Tallahassee Classical School this week after she was told to either step down or face termination, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

Carrasquilla, who was at the charter school for less than a year, told the newspaper the school board’s chair, Barney Bishop, offered the ultimatum, and she believes it was tied to the art lesson that included Michelangelo’s “David” and his “Creation of Adam” fresco painting. 

I saw a replica of "David" in Florence in 1976, and if I visit Florence in June 2024 (as is my current plan), I'll see the actual work by Michelangelo.

I can't find the story now, but I remember reading about a Texas teacher who was fired because students saw some naked art while going from one room in a museum to another--and all their parents had signed permission slips for them to attend!  I don't support that kind of foolishness at all, or the "David" foolishness, any more than I support this kind of foolishness.

Update, 3/26/23:  News made it to Italy:

A Florence museum on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to view Michelangelo’s “David” in person after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her. Confusing art with pornography was “ridiculous,” Nardella said.

The incredulous Italian response highlights how the U.S. culture wars are often perceived in Europe, where despite a rise in right-wing sentiment and governance, the Renaissance and its masterpieces, even its naked ones, are generally free of controversy...

Carrasquilla has said two parents complained because they weren’t notified in advance that a nude would be shown, while a third called the iconic statue pornographic.

Cecilie Hollberg, director of the Galleria dell’Accademia, where the “David” is housed, expressed astonishment at the controversy.

“To think that ‘David’ could be pornographic means truly not understanding the contents of the Bible, not understanding Western culture and not understanding Renaissance art,” Hollberg said in a telephone interview.

She invited the principal, school board, parents and student body to view the “purity” of the statue.

Tallahassee Classical is a charter school. While it is taxpayer-funded and tuition-free, it operates almost entirely independently of the local school district and is sought out by parents seeking an alternative to the public school curriculum...

Barney Bishop, chairman of Tallahassee Classical’s school board, has told reporters that while the photo of the statue played a part in Carrasquilla’s ouster, it wasn’t the only factor. He has declined to elaborate while defending the decision.

There Seem To Be A Lot of Sickos In Education

I have no desire to know what my students do sexually, or with whom they do it.  I can see no benefit to possessing that information, it's not my place to know it, and it's nothing I can impact, so why would I need to know it?  Worse than knowing it, it would be wildly inappropriate for me to ask about it.

Similarly, there seem to be teachers (just watch Libs of TikTok if you want to see them!) who have plenty of interest in ensuring their students know about their sexuality or antics.  Why do kids need to know that, especially about someone who's essentially a stranger?  

I can understand these parents' concerns regarding their middle schoolers:

Parents in Boston are outraged after a middle school issued a survey to students asking explicit questions about sexual activity and gender identity, according to reports.

Boston’s Eliot K-8 Innovation School principal Traci Griffith told parents in an email last Thursday that she had received “many concerns” regarding the “Youth Risk Behavior Survey,” which was given to students in sixth and seventh grade, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

The 54-question survey —  which was voluntary and anonymous — was administered by Boston Public Schools and included questions about sex and transgenderism as well as suicide, drug use, bullying, weight and exercise.

I wonder what possible value the district would get from giving a survey about sexuality.  I understand that Massachusetts students generally do better than the average US student on standardized tests, how are Boston's students doing?  Is the district teaching them readin', writin', and 'rithmetic?

Outside of health class, the education business needs to quit spending so much time on teenagers' genitalia and focus on the task at hand.

"Land Acknowledgements"

Is there any piece of land, anywhere on earth, that hasn't been conquered by someone?  Morally, should we all live in Africa, from whence the human race emerged?

Land acknowledgements are a silly performance and a waste of time:

"If it becomes routine, or worse yet, is strictly performative, then it has no meaning at all," said Kevin Gover, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and undersecretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian Institution. "It goes in one ear and out the other." (Gover said only one or two Smithsonian museums have land acknowledgments; the National Museum of the American Indian is among those that do, and its acknowledgment is only one sentence long.)

Gover said the statements — which first appeared in Australia back in the 1970s in the push for Aboriginal peoples' rights and more recently blossomed in Canada with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, which brought to light how generations of Indigenous schoolchildren had been stripped of their native languages and cultural traditions — can also feel disempowering to the very people they're supposed to uplift.

"If I hear a land acknowledgment, part of what I'm hearing is, 'There used to be Indians here. But now they're gone. Isn't that a shame?' And I don't wish to be made to feel that way," Gover said.

But other Indigenous experts say land acknowledgments do have value. If people are thinking about how they go about crafting and using these statements, they can provide a first step toward action.

They're also a slap in the face.  Essentially what they say is, "Someone else used to live here but we own this land now, and we're not giving it back."  If you're not going to give the land back, your so-called land acknowledgement is hollow as well as insulting.  Lefties love these kinds of do-nothing performances, these backhanded shows of support, that have the effect of keeping minorities in their place.

They Won't Stop Passing Unconstitutional Laws

California keeps trying, but they keep getting shot down (pun intended):

A federal judge is blocking a California law that would mandate certain safety features for semiautomatic handguns.

U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney on Monday ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) and four individuals who had said the law violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms since no new guns being manufactured complied with it, Reuters reported ...

Since California is a one-party state, there's no political cost to be borne by repeatedly passing unconstitutional laws.

Good Law, Or No?

My initial response was to support this law, but now I'm not so sure.  I still support the intent, but I question whether this is a federal responsibility.  Yes, they can certainly tie the objectives to getting school funding, but just because they can do that doesn't mean that it's right to do so; either it's a federal responsibility or it's not, and I'm leaning towards not.

A U.S. lawmaker introduced legislation to Congress on Wednesday that would require schools to receive parental permission before a student changes their pronouns, a response to a lawsuit by a parent whose daughter allegedly began to secretly transition genders at a California school.

The “Prohibiting Parental Secrecy Policies in Schools Act,” sponsored by Republican California Rep. Doug LaMalfa, would withhold federal funding from schools if they do not implement policies which require parental permission before a student can change their name or pronouns at school. The legislation was drafted as a response lawsuit from Aurora Regino, who is suing Chico Unified School District after a counselor allegedly helped her daughter secretly transition genders, LaMalfa told the Daily Caller News Foundation...

The Center for American Liberty filed a lawsuit on behalf of Regino in January after she found out that a school counselor had allegedly been helping her 10-year-old daughter transition genders, convincing the girl to use he/him pronouns and a male name at school. The counselor, whom Regino never met, had allegedly advised Regino’s daughter that she was a boy and to “come out” to other people before telling her mother, Regino told the DCNF.

Shame on California for having a policy that requires educators to keep information from parents: 

The California Department of Education guidance prohibits school districts from telling parents if their child has changed their name or pronouns at school, a policy which Chico Unified School District has adopted, Regino told the DCNF.

We Need More Diversity Directors Like This One

If we have to have such positions at colleges, I'd prefer they be filled with people like Dr. Lee:

A faculty director of the Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, says her contract was not renewed after she questioned the school’s so-called “anti-racism” policies. The diversity director, a black woman, added that she experienced “hostility, harassment, and bullying” after speaking out. 

Dr. Tabia Lee told Inside Higher Ed that her contract is being terminated after she questioned antiracist “orthodoxy,” objected to the college’s land acknowledgments for an Indigenous tribe, and tried to bring a “Jewish inclusion” event to campus. 

Lee added that additional reasons for her contract not being renewed by the college included her declining to join a “socialist network,” refusing to use the terms “Latinx” and “Filipinx,” and inquiring why the word “black” was capitalized but not “white.” 

The former diversity director, who is black, added that an employee in her diversity office accused her of “white speaking,” “whitesplaining,” and supporting white supremacy.

So-called land acknowledgements are my favorite:  those people used to live here, but it's ours now, and no, we're not going to give it back.  That's essentially what every so-called land acknowledgement says!  But back to Dr. Lee:

“People have literally attacked me just for doing what I always taught my students to do, which is to think critically, to respect diverse opinions and viewpoints, and to exercise their own freedom of expression,” she added.

I respect her opinion. 

Anyone want to place bets on whether she gets her job back eventually?

What A Whiner

The problem in this story lies not with her fellow students nor with the locals, but with the woman in the mirror:

While NYU is famed for its foreign offerings in places like Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Berlin, Paris, and Shanghai, I opted for Florence, Italy, in the fall...

I imagined fun potluck dinners with my roommates, summer flings with people who called me "bella," gelato that dripped down my fingers in the heat, and natural wine that paired effortlessly with good conversation and better prosciutto.

But when my semester in Florence came to an end, I grew to despise the sights, hated the people, and couldn't wait to get back home to my campus in New York...

My routine looked drastically different from that of my roommates. I had a GPA to upkeep and an online internship. I wasn't out partying; I was home working most of the time, and it became difficult to concentrate on my assignments...

The roommate schedule is the only complaint that I find valid.  How horrible for her, though, that everyone else had different fantasies--and lived them!--depriving her of "fun potluck dinners with my roommates".  Aww, and she couldn't find anyone who would call her pretty.  Self-centered much, lady?

Let's continue:

Since three-day weekends are the standard for NYU's study-abroad programs, almost everyone chose to take $20 Ryanair flights to places like Croatia and Munich for Oktoberfest. To me, this seemed like an exhausting form of escapism. I was convinced my peers were doing it only to freshen up their social-media profiles and make their friends back home jealous...

But most weekends, I stayed at home in Florence, while my classmates burned themselves out with travel. During those lonely weekends, I ran along the Arno river, popped into free gallery exhibits, and cooked with ingredients I found at local vegetable markets. I was left in the apartment completely alone. This lack of human interaction didn't help me feel optimistic.

I was disillusioned by the fact that no one in my study-abroad program seemed to have my values.

I'm not quite sure whom I resented more during my stay in Italy: my American classmates or the locals. The latter is often described as soulful, charming, and overflowing with hospitality, but I could provide concrete examples of them being hostile, inconsiderate, and preposterous. For example, one time, two women were talking about me on the bus, looking at me up and down and scoffing. There were a couple of incidents of verbal confrontations. 

I started to protest by presenting myself to the public in a way I knew they'd hate. I started wearing American-brand athleisure, Nike Air Max 97s, and oversize hoodies. The Italians rolled their eyes as I passed them on the street.

I know it's only one example, but two women talk about her and the world comes to an end?   And in response, she chooses to intentionally antagonize the locals?

In Europe in general, and in Italy in particular, how you dress is important.  Any European can pick out an American from 100 meters; we stand out, we don't dress as snazzy as they do.  Heck, I've been known to wear cargo shorts whilst walking around Rome!  She had to know the locals wouldn't like the way she dressed, assuming she dressed as an American--and she also didn't have to care what they said!  Granted, the locals didn't need to participate in "verbal confrontations", either, but that's an American viewpoint, I don't know if that's an Italian viewpoint.  And when in Rome...

Let's get back to the cry-fest:

I was consistently frustrated by the fact that my life back in New York was not put on hold. Fellow NYU students who stayed in New York were actively pursuing in-person internships, networking with zeal, and making moves to advance their futures. I felt like I was wasting precious time in Florence.

Are you kidding?  She's frustrated that everyone else's life didn't stop while she was in freakin' Florence?  Said in best Darth Vader voice:  the entitlement is strong with this one.

Send me to Florence for a year.  I volunteer for the suffering.

Arrogance and Double Standards

My last post was about UCLA, let's move north a little bit to Stanford.

Recently an invited Trump-appointed federal judge was shouted down by law students, who were supported by a member of the Stanford administration.  No, shouting down a speaker is not legitimate protest or an exercise of the First Amendment, and Stanford Law students should be old enough and smart enough to know better.  Their previous and subsequent behavior verifies that they don't know better:

The Stanford students who shouted down Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan last week have found something new to be outraged about. They don’t want their names or photos to appear in any news reports about the incident.

Isn’t it a little late for that...

The names and photos of these students should be made available to the public for future reference. You know, if one of them decides to run for office or gets nominated to sit on a bench someday.  link

Let's get to a few facts: 

Stanford Law School protesters faced criticism after heckling Trump-appointed U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan during an event on campus and for plastering the names and faces of campus Federalist Society members all over the school last week.

Now they are demanding their names be redacted from a Washington Free Beacon report covering the incident, arguing that keeping their names public could invite "abuse and harassment."

Aaron Sibarium, a reporter for the Free Beacon, said not so fast...

"The other thing too is that they didn't just shout down a sitting federal judge, they also posted the names and faces of every member of the Stanford Federalist Society, every board member who helped invite him," he said. "They posted those names and faces around the school in a concerted effort to shame their peers and pressure them out of hosting the event."

I'm reminded of what I quoted in a previous post about the Red Guards: 

Using students to pressure other students into “group-think” is right out of the Commie playbook.

Too many previously-respected institutions of higher learning are taking the respect it took them decades to earn and are flushing it down the drain in a few short years.  And I agree with the author at the first link above:  the students should pay a price for their unconscionable actions, later if not now.

It's Hard To Feel Sorry For These Students

They choose to pay for crap like this--don't they vote on it?  Or does their student government make such decisions unilaterally?

A “green initiative” at the University of California Los Angeles continues to stockpile student fee funds ostensibly intended to make improvements to the campus environment.

However, even when the money is spent, it goes to projects with questionable “sustainability” benefits, such as “cultural graduation ceremonies"...

“Student fees collected by TGIF (The Green Initiative Fund) have been used to help fund [student government’s] iClicker rental program, biodegradable diningware for volunteer dinners, a vegan cookbook promotional event, the creation of poetry booklets, and multiple student music festivals and fashion shows,” the paper reported.

“I am not saying music festivals and fashion events should not be funded, but those would not be the first things that come to mind for the Green Fund,” Professor Deepak Rajagopal, an academic at the university’s Institute of the Environment told the student newspaper.

Meanwhile, a Bruin analysis from 2022 concluded that UCLA was set to miss its carbon neutrality goal by 43 years, though a campus official denied the paper’s claim.

If these college students still can't figure out the grift and graft in their own little microcosm of the so-called green movement, they aren't smart enough to be in college.

"Designated Experts" on "Climate Crisis" Proven Wrong Again

If I made such extreme "predictions", and were wrong 100% of the time, no one would listen to a word I say.  But people like Grumpy Greta can be wrong all day long, day in and day out, and the media would still grant them credibility.  This a a serious problem with the press.