You can't trust anything that comes out of the University of Santa Cruz. In the early 80's a grand jury indicted several students and faculty for election fraud. The students, encouraged by their profs, registered non-resident students in the local Mayoral election and had them all vote for the socialist candidate.
Several were found guilty and the election invalidated. The students refused to admit that they had done anything wrong. None of the faculty were punished by the University.
This is a university that did away with such fascists concepts as "grades" and adopted the banana slug as its mascot.