Note: Not everyone loves us

The conservative/libertarian City Journal complains about a UC-San Diego diversity executive appointment in its latest issue (and about the Regents’ endorsement of Prop 30). Excerpts:

The University of California, San Diego has done it again. Last year, it announced the creation of a new diversity sinecure: a vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Campus leaders established this post even as state budget cuts resulted in the loss of star scientists to competing universities, as humanities classes and degree programs were eliminated to save money, and as tuition continued its nearly 75 percent, five-year rise. The new vice chancellorship was wildly redundant with UCSD’s already-existing diversity infrastructure…  Since this summer, the regents have been shilling for Governor Jerry Brown’s $8 billion November tax initiative, arguing that the only way to save the university from financial and academic ruin is to jack up the state’s upper-bracket income and sales taxes. Their rubber-stamp approval of UCSD’s senseless new appointment, with its sky-high salary, shreds whatever remaining budgetary credibility they may have had…

From: http://www.city-journal.org/2012/cjc0920hm.html

With Prop 30 polling just over a majority (see earlier posts on this blog), such critiques can pull it below 50%.  Is UCOP monitoring and responding to more than the major news outlets?  How about AM talk radio which reaches a much larger audience than the City Journal?  Here is a recent excerpt from the John and Ken show – which reaches over a million listeners in the southern California area – on Prop 30:

 
Here is another excerpt from the Fox and Hounds listserve that goes to small business (and others) in California:

Higher education institutions in California are involving themselves in the campaign for Proposition 30, quite possibly illegally, as they claim to spread information about the initiative. Cal State universities are sending out letters to prospective students suggesting there may not be room for them if the measure fails. Cal State Monterey has a mandatory meeting of freshman to hear a discussion on Prop 30. The University of California at Berkeley has a social network experiment based on the measure, which the official school release claims is unbiased, even though one of the directors of the experiment notes the “enormous potential impact on students, alumni, teachers, parents and employers.”…

Full article at http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2012/09/public-ed-involvement-in-prop-30-trigger-cuts-reminiscent-of-prop-13-campaign/

Of course, there may not be love out there to be gotten:
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