Campus Reform: University of San Francisco

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."

It is not every day that I can say that I agree with Mark Yudof, President of the University of California. But, his latest letter to the entire UC community deserves applause.

On February 27th, an event entitled "Israeli Soldiers Speak Out" was hosted at UC Davis. As expected, leftist, anti-Israel students crashed the event and attempted to shut the program down by heckling at the invited speakers.

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.

With unemployment at record highs, students facing a tuition increase of up to 16%, and financial aide programs failing to cover the cost of education you'd think public sector unions might be afraid to publicly demand more money from University of California (UC) students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.