A scathing attack on the UC Student Body:

The University of California (UC) is set to again gain some name recognition in the coming days, namely on March 4th, for the actions their students will attempt to undertake in that time.  One University in particular, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) has already thrust itself into the national spotlight for the ongoing racial tension on the University’s beautiful forest enhanced campus sitting on top of the bluffs to the Pacific Ocean.  Even before this, the events of the last academic quarter, Fall 2009, with the fee hikes and student protests, the UC system is gaining a name for itself synonymous with vile and not with excellence.

Many will argue that much of what occurs on UC campuses is of a neutral academic matter, where the students participate peacefully in the day-to-day activities of student life.  But what goes on these campuses, is hardly neutral, academic, or excellent.  The UC’sare a right piece of mess.  With rampant alcohol and drug use comparable to that seen at the party schools of Arizona and Colorado, comparable even (if not exceeding) the drug use at San Diego State University – where at one time upwards of a hundred students were arrested in an undercover drug busting operation.

I would hesitate, though, that the reader understand that I do not speak of every UC student.  In fact statistics places the number at just 40% of students who participate in what the law would see as illegal.  Student leaders then turn around and trumpet the fact that a majority of UC students are good natured learners of excellence, and the like.  But this is an idiotic statement, to the say the least.  It ignores the thousands of students who act in an ill-natured manner.  Simply for the benefit of calling the whole community good.  It is misleading; rubber stamping an OK on the not-so-good activities of UC students.

The ongoing events at UCSD are a product of this, ‘let’s forget about the alcoholism, the racist bros, the rude comments, the like-clockwork high students, and the list perhaps could go on.’  UCSD is perhaps the worst in terms of its nonchalant I could care less attitude of their stubborn, ignorant, and mostly arrogant student body.  Here at UCSD you’ll find students so high-minded of their self-worth that they need not smoke pot to ascertain a plain of existence above where the average human being is.  This kind of attitude is what led to the Compton inspired party and follow-up party.  The organizers of this event could’ve given a flying-fuck to the sensitivities of the rest of the student body.   Like southerners trumpeting the constitution they’d point to free speech rights and an assortment of other laws they would like to think work in their favor.  They are, if anything, a pitiful bunch of children.  Not to mention, San Diego isn’t exactly a breeding ground for racial equality or temperament.

But the exact same could be said for students at other campuses.  Minority students at UCLA, UCR, and UCSC all rally around their respective sexual orientations and racial identities.  Segregating themselves from other minorities and the student population as a whole.  They protest that they are unequally affected fee hikes.  They protest that the system doesn’t help them achieve.  They blatantly and with vagrant choice ignore the rest of the student body should it seemingly in their minds work in their favor to trumpet their own perceived unique identity.  They see themselves as a unique part of the UC system, when in fact they are no better or no worse then the rest of the UC Student Body.  They too act in childish ways, organizing protests where they claim all those who are members of the organizing party “protested peacefully,” but those ‘other’ students act badly.  Bullshit.  You invited protest without leadership, any violence or illegal escapades that may result from that are your sole responsibility.  As one student put it to me of the UCLA protests last quarter, “We were just sitting and protesting peacefully and singing, when these other students uninvited starting messing with the police.”  Yes, indeed, you only invited certain people to your protest.  Grow up and take responsibility.

The other UCs are equally worthless to some degree or another.

I have great faith that a few students will graduate with an excellence in academics, ethics, and morals but I have little faith in the great many students who will most certainly graduate with very few morals, very little ethics, and a sub-standard academic portfolio.  Good thing we live in the United States of America where this is absolutely OK, and that we live in California, where this is has become seemingly expected.