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UC Santa Cruz students launch hunger strike over budget cuts
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 5/27/9 | J.M. BROWN

Posted on 05/27/2009 7:57:51 AM PDT by SmithL

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To: SmithL

This is the problem with the public funding process - everyone has a special interest - everyone IS a special interest.

Cut the budget, make the hard choices ... Oh wait, not THAT line item...


21 posted on 05/27/2009 8:11:50 AM PDT by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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To: tgusa

Re; What in hell does a ‘community studies’ major do?

Sadly, grow up to be President.


22 posted on 05/27/2009 8:12:27 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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To: SmithL

Well imagine that...Kalifornia give-away programs have something to do with “people of color.” Knock me over with a feather!


23 posted on 05/27/2009 8:13:37 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: SmithL
Students of Color Collective, pledged not to take nourishment until a long list of demands is met.

This could actually be useful.

24 posted on 05/27/2009 8:13:44 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Putin warned Obama not to pursue Marxism. Obama has ignored him.)
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To: RobRoy

What in hell does a ‘community studies’ major do?


25 posted on 05/27/2009 8:15:37 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: tgusa

It’s another one of those hard sciences that makes us a world leader in science and technology.


26 posted on 05/27/2009 8:15:53 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
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To: SmithL

These bright intelligent people do not understand the concept of out of money. When you are out of money you don’t do or have certain things, it’s very simple. These people throwing temper tantrums like a 3 year old wanting candy will not make money magically appear for them..... awwww isn’t that a shame.


27 posted on 05/27/2009 8:16:41 AM PDT by Pilated
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To: SmithL

What’s the over/under as to how long it last? Heck, don’t tell me. I’ll go with the under.


28 posted on 05/27/2009 8:16:51 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Better to convert enemies to allies than to destroy them)
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To: Bob Buchholz
"Spiritually, we're strong enough to keep this going and it matters on a level bigger than budget numbers," said Ricky Quesnot, a fifth-year Latin American and Latino and Latina Studies student."

Apparently Latino e Latina studies is quite an intensive program on par with architecture and premed. Or Ricky is a slow learner. Or a professional student.
29 posted on 05/27/2009 8:17:48 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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30 posted on 05/27/2009 8:18:57 AM PDT by dead
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"They can't imagine how two people who have given such long-term instruction could just be cut like that,"

What part of "no mas dinero" are they having such difficulty grasping?

Should they even be in college if they can't wrap their brains around so simple a concept?

31 posted on 05/27/2009 8:22:54 AM PDT by dead
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To: SmithL

There you go. It is racist to cut the budget.


32 posted on 05/27/2009 8:24:09 AM PDT by lormand
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To: SmithL

This article highlights a disgraceful issue - that colleges are getting away with “increasing minority enrollment” by expanding their offerings of useless, easy programs. I have seen the curriculum of some of these courses, and a lot of it is instruction on glorified shakedown artistry (”how to get more pie from The Man for you and your friends without breaking the law”) and other ways of fanning the flames of perpetual victimhood.

It is like the Left wants a perpetual underclass to use as footsoldiers against liberty and free enterprise, while maintaining a facade of standing up for the so-called “underprivileged” (one can infer from the widespread use of this term that the Left views the successful as merely being products of their “privileges”). Get a BA in Gay-Black-Muslim Social Studies, with a minor in Latino Feminist Postmodern Scat Art, and then spend your life bitching and complaining that nobody will hire your “qualified” sorry ass over the pigmentally-challenged holders of “equivalent education level”.


33 posted on 05/27/2009 8:28:07 AM PDT by M203M4 (A rainbow-excreting government-cheese-pie-eating unicorn in every pot.)
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What in hell does a ‘community studies’ major do?

Hmmmmmm...could provide the needed background, the needed experience to write an autobiography... provide the 'smarts' for a community activist...enable one to absorb 20 years of hate filled racism in your community church...vote 'present' 134 times in an elective office...conduct a media unchallenged campaign...eloquently read a teleprompter...totally undermine the 'rule of law'.
Whooooo the possibilities, it can be done

34 posted on 05/27/2009 8:29:16 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Bob Buchholz

“Exactly what do you do with a degree in Latin-American studies, or African-American studies??”

Become a sumpreme court judge?? President??? At least a community organizer!


35 posted on 05/27/2009 8:29:30 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: SmithL

Yeah and remember, there’s always the Banana Slug!


36 posted on 05/27/2009 8:30:24 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: tgusa

Ask Obambi...


37 posted on 05/27/2009 8:32:16 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: dead

LOL at the anti-hotlinking image the source site used to replace the image you posted. Bastids!

Take some comfort in the fact that it could be worse - some sites direct hotlinked images to goatse, tubgirl, meatspin, etc (if you don’t know, don’t ask, don’t search, don’t worry - your life is better off with you not experiencing these marvels of the intertubes).


38 posted on 05/27/2009 8:32:34 AM PDT by M203M4 (A rainbow-excreting government-cheese-pie-eating unicorn in every pot.)
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To: SmithL
Wow! A Rare Four-Fer! Starving Poor Women Minorities! Maybe we should send some pizzas.....

BTW, did anyone catch the "Community Studies student Chelsea Long"? Sounds like an Acorn-in-Training, if she doesn't starve herself to death, first.

39 posted on 05/27/2009 8:34:11 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Stand Watch Listen
What in hell does a ‘community studies’ major do?


Don't forget the massive recruiting effort that ACORN is going to be doing. The pipeline needs to be filled.
40 posted on 05/27/2009 8:34:22 AM PDT by frossca
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