The campus riots

I was at the gym this morning surfing the channels. Fox was wall to wall riots on campus, particularly how police (state police?) were handling the UCLA baby babbling Gazans. Everyone was very well behaved. Kids were grinning for the cameras. "Hey look mom; I'm on TV. Send money" (just kidding). Police were using plastic ties and removing masks. MSNBC and CNN, zip, nada, zilch. Lizzie Warren was talking about sending aid to Gaza and encouraging women to kill their babies. There was a celebrity on the other channel talking about his latest food routine or show--didn't stick around to find out. On Fox I could see that the tents were removed and all the "belongings" dumped in a pile of trash, just like removal of homeless. And that's what they are, except the homeless are probably more patriotic and less fascist than these protestors. And maybe these spoiled rich college kids chanting from the river to the sea (genocide) can find out what it means to defecate and urinate on the street, because I don't know if anyone has set up porta-potties for them after they are arrested.

Police crack down on encampment at UCLA protests; live protest updates (usatoday.com)

WATCH LIVE: Police controlling crowd of anti-Israel agitators on UCLA quad after violent mob riots rocked campus | Fox News Video

Fund raising in China

Why was UCLA playing their basketball opener in China (3 players, Freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were arrested for shoplifting)? To fund raise and promote California.

"Yet lost within that story about their arrest is the even more absurd story about why the UCLA men's basketball team was even in China in the first place — during the heart of their fall academic semester. If we are going to call these basketball players "student-athletes," shouldn't they be in class?

From the standpoint of a college such as UCLA, sending the men's basketball team to China makes business sense. China has one of the world's fastest growing economies, and it serves as a fertile recruiting ground for potential college students. By sending the team to China, UCLA gains the chance to expose a whole generation of young Chinese students to its brand and the opportunity to become Bruins." https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcedelman/2017/11/10/everythings-wrong-with-ucla-and-georgia-tech-opening-their-mens-basketball-season-in-china/#4bcd81ed5299

"Side bar: NCAA boycotted North Carolina over a proposed 'bathroom bill' because it violated civil rights. NCAA is promoting itself in China, which is outstanding at violating civil rights." (Ty Walikonis)

The hypocrisy stinks like a stopped up toilet in a public restroom. And a smaller dose of stink, other UCLA players caught in crimes in other years got a slap on the wrist. Different standard for athletes who bring in money.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/pac12/2017/11/11/report-three-ucla-players-could-remain-china-week-two/855020001/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-ucla-basketball-china-20171111-story.html

http://www.ajc.com/sports/ucla-basketball-players-expected-serve-time-china/bPK99olg2LtdtL5MHluo0I/

Conflict resolution at UCLA

UCLA is launching a series of public lectures, academic courses and programs aimed at "fostering civil discourse" and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. In the midwest, things aren’t quite this obvious, but at least no one will be shouted down or chased off stage the way it’s done at some Ivy League schools. . . or wait. . . that did happen in 2010.

On one side is professor Saree Makdisi, a UCLA English professor, nephew of the infamous Edward Said, and a well-known anti-Israel ideologue who believes Israel should no longer exist as a Jewish state, and on the other professor David N. Myers, former director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and current chair of the history department who argues that 'Statist Zionism,' or a Jewish state, should give way to a 'global Jewish collective,' that Israel should no longer exist as a Jewish state. So where are the two sides?

Looks like there won't be any conflicts to resolve after all, observes Campus Watch, a pro-Israel group. It’s just wonderful how academe solves problems.

Conflict resolution at UCLA

How 100 faculty handled the 2010 disruption of a speaker at Irvine (we were actually visiting there last spring—lovely campus)—sort of sounds like the faculty crowd defending the prostitute against the LaCrosse players at Duke:

“As faculty (David Myers was one) affiliated with Jewish Studies at the University of California, we are deeply distressed by the decision of the District Attorney in Orange County, California, to file criminal charges against Muslim students who disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech on the UC Irvine campus last year. While we disagree with the students' decision to disrupt the speech, we do not believe such peaceful protest should give rise to criminal liability. The individual students and the Muslim Student Union were disciplined for this conduct by the University, including suspending the MSU from functioning as a student organization for a quarter. This is sufficient punishment. There is no need for further punitive measures, let alone criminal prosecution and criminal sanctions.”

Rethinking the Jewish Nation by David N. Myers.