This one really gutted me. So much alumni volunteer work. Not a year when I didn’t make a donation—albeit small. I went to my first reunion a few years ago and could tell it wasn’t the same place. But still.
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Same - not much in the way of donations but did alumni interviews, gave a talk there, supported student efforts to set up Southeast Asian studies. I’ve been to several reunions as well, but now …
aug 5, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
I responded last month to the new call for alumni volunteers to do local outreach at high schools. The thank you email with details came the day after the capitulation. So ridiculous.
aug 6, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
Pretty audacious for them to pretend it’s business as usual. But it’s hitting even closer to home for me now, as UCLA (my current home) is in the crosshairs of the blackmailers at DOJ and teh White House. If UCLA capitulates I’m going to have to figure out a really good scorched earth strategy . . .
aug 6, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
Goal of Christian Right: use antisemitism as inroad to overtake liberal-enlightenment tradition of critical thought, rationalism, and science. Huge Fraud. Trump/Bondi/DOJ are hijacking antisemitism. Actual values: Hegseth/Pentagon leader--pay attention to his views! apnews.com/article/wome...
aug 9, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
❤️-out to you. My daughter who just graduated in June from UCLA and started a one-year MA at Berkeley the week after graduation is infuriated. As are her friends. As a 40 yr. resident of the SF Bay Area, if UCLA stands firm I would be glad to transfer my monthly Brown $$$, to my kid’s alma mater.
aug 6, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for that. Congratulations to your daughter and hopefully her Berkeley program goes well. I’m not terribly optimistic at this point, though maybe our administrators will surprise me in a positive way for a change . . .
aug 6, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view
We were actually visiting UCLA the day she got her Brown rejection. 😂 I remain in awe of the education she got at UCLA. From the Honors College to the Prison Education Program to her research at a language acquisition lab. Why does administration always suck?
aug 6, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
There are so many excellent faculty members who are deeply committed to undergraduate education and our students. One can absolutely get a world-class education there. But, yes the administration is a real disappointment and always too quick to betray both faculty and students.
aug 6, 2025, 3:43 am • 1 0 • view