There’s a new U.C. in town
There are a lot of University of California campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Francisco (medical school only), UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, etc.
Oh, about those last two: UC Irvine and UC Riverside have become the hotbeds of pro-Palestinian, anti-Jewish activism. The campuses are in the news right now because some Palestinian students are being prosecuted for intentionally disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, depriving him of his free speech rights. The verbal attack against Ambassador Oren is just a teeny example of what gets dished out regularly on those campuses (especially UC Irvine), but with Oren they picked such a high profile target that there was finally some push-back.
The AP has an incredibly brief report on the story. What fascinated me was the headline, which I first spotted on the SF Chronicle’s home page:
I know that, when writing headlines, space is at a premium, but doesn’t that phrasing make it look as if there’s a new campus to add to the UC roster? You know: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Muslim….
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