I cautioned our son to be careful about the left wingers, and he told me not to worry... and then he tells me about the firebombing of the biology lab. (He's in medical research.)
The aged hippies are all still there in the tie dyed shirts and the flower power VWs.
The local Catholic Church was seriously damaged by vandals just a couple of months ago (probably in response to Obama’s attack on religious freedom.)
The undergraduate commencements are by the different “Colleges” at UCSC. Unlike my undergrad days at Missouri where I was in the “College of Engineering,” at UCSC a “college” means a motley collection of kids in different academic disciplines. So at today’s commencement, we had mostly wacko liberal arts kooks (film, digital media, women’s studies, etc) mixed in with very few hard sciences grads like my daughter. I think there was one other person in Biology. It was a real shame because it blends people with their heads screwed on straight with the lunatics...and the lunatics dominated 50:1. Fortunately, my daughter didn’t get polluted by the nuts.
I remember my daughter doing one paper that refuted the “science” of global warming. She got punished by her teacher on her grade, but about half the class congratulated her for her stand and secretly admitted to her that they agreed with her!
I hadn’t heard about the damage to the Catholic Church in SC...very sad.