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Berkeley’s Best and Worst by: Malcolm A. Kline, April 02, 2008 The editors of the California Patriot at Berkeley have performed an invaluable service for undergraduates there by compiling a list of the best and worst classes, in their experience, on campus. The problem is that half of the cream-of-the-crop courses are in Political Science while half of the worst are in history, economics and, yes, business administration. “Even a convincing speaker like the retired Professor Leon Litwack did not make the claims in this class believable,” the editors report of History 7B, “From the Civil War to the Present.”...

BERKELEY, Calif. - At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60's. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus. Conservatism is becoming more visible at the University of California here, where students put out a feisty magazine called The California Patriot and have made the Berkeley Republicans one of the largest groups on campus. But here, as at schools nationwide, the professors seem to be moving in the other direction, as evidenced by their campaign contributions...

Sunday, May 18, 2003 By Claudia Cowan SAN FRANCISCO — Like thousands of other conservative-minded college students across the country, some at U.C.-Berkeley (search) are waging war against what they call rampant liberalism on campuses. Their weapon: a right-leaning monthly newspaper called The California Patriot (search). “We like to be watchdogs,” said Seth Norman, the managing editor of the Patriot. In fact, more students than ever are taking their minority opinions into the public domain to balance out the messages their peers are getting in the classroom at school. From the Patriot and The Stanford Review to The Yale Free...

Sodom and Gomorrah University -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 19, 2003 Thank goodness for conservative college student journalists. They bravely blow the whistle on the cultural rot plaguing the nation's institutions of higher learning. And they alert the public to the ugly truth about campus hedonism, which is downplayed by clueless administrators, admissions flacks and faculty enablers. Just how dangerously out of control has the campus social environment become? A recent report by student journalists Seth R. Norman and Ashley Rudmann of the California Patriot, the conservative journal at the University of California, Berkeley, provides some hair-raising answers. According to Norman and...

<p>Thank goodness for conservative college student journalists. They bravely blow the whistle on the cultural rot plaguing the nation's institutions of higher learning. And they alert the public to the ugly truth about campus hedonism, which is downplayed by clueless administrators, admissions flacks and faculty enablers.</p>

Sodom and Gomorrah University Thank goodness for conservative college student journalists. They bravely blow the whistle on the cultural rot plaguing the nation's institutions of higher learning. And they alert the public to the ugly truth about campus hedonism, which is downplayed by clueless administrators, admissions flacks and faculty enablers. Just how dangerously out of control has the campus social environment become? A recent report by student journalists Seth R. Norman and Ashley Rudmann of the California Patriot (www.calpatriot.org), the conservative journal at the University of California-Berkeley, provides some hair-raising answers. According to Norman and Rudmann, anonymous gay sex seekers...