A Month in Paradise
Norden, Edward
Edward Norden A Month in Paradise Scenes from the University of California, San Diego —a kinder, gentler campus, sort of. L Free Speech rnie's voice carried best. The living Arnold...
...The professor, after all, was treating this not as symptomology, not as part of the problem, but as an entrance to the solution: truthful, visionary, liberating material, artistically, socially, above all politically...
...42 The American Spectator April 1992 Maybe it's required...
...Not only did your reporter overhear no resentment of the Asians—he failed almost completely to elicit it...
...Your reporter has to say "must have been...
...Maybe he doesn't really mean it...
...professoriate has entrenched itself in some departments, in the long run P.C...
...The ban on alcohol, the crack-down on the co-ops, may unfortunately displease some people, but the proper and orderly functioning of the university demand no less...
...This novel, Berman wishes his roughly 150, mainly female students to understand, is a great, intellectually sophisticated, prophetic book about our century's politics...
...The book scrupulously flays America for not living up to its own standards, without descending into anti-Americanism...
...Indeed, some of the kids may already be voting with their feet—there are loads of P.C...
...He disappointed the Uptight Right on the Marcuse affair, which for him came down to academic freedom and UCSD's future...
...Some added the friendly warning that if a student wished to argue, he had better be able to back up his dissent logically and with evidence, the implication being that parrots needn't do the same...
...They should have sent Gordon Liddy...
...There are many things about Irons that set him apart from his fellow progressives...
...The man at ante-bellum Harvard who had this job was Skiddy von Stade...
...The American Spectator April 1992 33 archipelago since 1912...
...She considers herself, however, a pacifist, an absolute pacifist, no fan of the gun-toting Sandinista women, photos of whom the New Indicator likes to publish with their infants...
...0 evelle in that oral R history declared that this college system "never worked out...
...and in general what's becoming of the good old American dream of a college education in a time of unemployment nightmares, budget meltdowns, and demographic sea change...
...C71 46 The American Spectator April 1992...
...ble, and too nice...
...All relaxed, however, all were rapt, all were scopophiliacs, whenever the teacher screened material on a pair of suspended TVs like those you see hanging in hospital rooms...
...Any questions...
...He decided to ask him why he was abusing it...
...Robert Bork himself would probably give him that...
...Co-author with Atkinson of "Equilibrium in the Research University," he's an anthropology prof who has jumped from teaching to administering and should be upbeat when talking to a reporter...
...Revelle hoped to fend off anomie and balance the yin of research with the yang of undergraduate teaching and learning...
...No, he's still no more than a Californian, if to be an American means to be either native-born or naturalized...
...What's Left of the Left...
...He added his John Hancock and went in to hit the books...
...Young David is one of the best students in Electrical Engineering—so good that when Jerry Waldorf of troubled IBM came by the other day to scout the talent and discuss future chip materials, he was the only undergrad brought by Ku to a its own sake, and also knows that when he graduates, unless he continues on to graduate school or gets a job, he'll lose his visa...
...On this, at least, the lefty New Indicator's "Disorientation" issue for this year is right—the military-industrial complex was present at the inception of UCSD, spurred its growth, and remains a factor...
...The only political success of note in a couple of decades was the forced divestment by UCSD of itsBuy some chiclets 16...
...In his teaching days, Tuzin despaired of students who didn't believe him when he swore he would be delighted to talk with them one-on-one, or who, if they did show up, 1Well, maybe not all, some of the teachers of P.C...
...Times change and standards change...
...There were tables on the pavement between the Hump and the gym where you could sign a petition telling the administration to keep its hands to itself, and there were kids wearing Mao caps...
...As for the radicals, they seemed more glad than mad...
...He did get Berman to admit that the passivity here, the general flatness, wears down a scholar's edge...
...He is sure that he loves the Asians—they're studious, they're quiet, they "beat you at your own game...
...Without fail, every P.C...
...Well, yes...
...And that bedsheet...
...The P.C...
...Lisa Lowe from her "Intro to Women's Studies" class before the lecturer started doing her stuff, your reporter can't say whether she's brilliant, etc...
...The Koala especially is always going at him on this issue...
...Rafael is being sincere, he can't be accused of weasing, and in spite of that there's something wrong...
...f they're going to, they'll have to be diverted from a lot of other activities...
...Poor Walter Benjamin, author of The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction...
...Like Berman, he's a little sorry about that, and says he's grateful when the odd reactionary challenges him in mid-lecture...
...His first aim that day was to illustrate how Hollywood since time immemorial has "constructed"—that is, misrepresented and exploited—ethnicity, while the counterculture and rap, also known as hip-hop, have told it like it is...
...The best of his graduate students are in on the project...
...Her face was as fetching as a painted dish, and her meeting with a TV personality had put her on Cloud Nine, off of which Arnie's bangingwhump!—knocked her with a wince...
...You hear little of it at the Wendy's in the Price Center...
...The Chancellor f you want to know why this gentle institution is hailed / as an up-and-corner in U.S...
...Watson is a pre–affirmative action baby, a working survivor living with the fact that certain blacks and whites put him down as a black cat's paw for the white powers-that-be...
...The petition was doing well—more than 3,000 signatures already, meaning that the break-in had teed off even some of the apathetic moderates...
...Professor Irons is good...
...Seemingly, V. hadn't understood the official UCwide definition of Fighting Words: Those personally abusive epithets which, when directly addressed to any ordinary person are, in the context used and as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction whether or not they actually do...
...It was another gorgeous day in December on the campus of a school praised by U.S...
...Being nice himself, your reporter didn't pose it...
...The seven protesters had earlier invaded the store and tried to initiate dialogues...
...No More Fee Hikes...
...Yet many San Diegans still picture the university as it was for a moment in the sixties, when Herbert Marcuse was making headlines...
...By this time, around 300 not-so-passive kids were mobbing the Old Student Center and smashing the General Store windows...
...III...
...Sorry...
...IV Oxbridge on the Pacific csp's college set-up remains somewhat unorthodox...
...remain in the vanguard of semiconductors...
...But this will take a long time...
...On the other hand, Atkinson, former president of the National Science Foundation and current president of the American Association of Universities, isn't the best source on the undergraduate side of things...
...As such, the co-ops are the target of "relentless Administration hostility...
...I'm on the left...
...The fuss over that seems to have been no frolic...
...But is David a proper Asian-American...
...HEY, HEY, OLLIE, OLLIE, HOW MANY SECRETS DID YOU SHRED TODAY...
...VIII...
...professor audited by your reporter delivered himself of such an opening-day statement...
...It was unfair, of course, because the name doesn't appear in Cultural Literacy by J.D...
...Discover the college at UCSD, or to be more exact the colleges...
...It's because of multiculturalism...
...Dead men all, and unable to defend or explain their gazes...
...As for "Making of the Modern World" at Fifth, much depends on which professors you catch introducing the treasures of Jewish, Greek, Indian, and Chinese civilization...
...King, and who once long, long ago gave a dollar to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
...The Caucasians are going to be a minority in California by 2012...
...Framed on the wall is a New York Times Magazine cover from 1970, portraying a younger McGill in front of the Low Library...
...The campus humor magazine, you say...
...A student of Asian background now came out with her book...
...But it was during the rap videos that these white kids, mainly females, sat there with their mouths open...
...The broader issue is one of power—we're marching out of here now...
...The Electrical Engineering department in which Ku is a professor has a red-hot feel about it and continues to be sponsored by, among others, General Dynamics, Hughes, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas...
...One way, said Revelle, is to make sure there's a Telegraph Avenue, as in...
...Well-organized, Rafael is—but then so are virtually all of the teachers at UCSD, male and female, progressive, non-progressive, and totally apolitical...
...Or was it your reporter's stimulated imagination...
...Indeed, just as Lauren said it might, the co-ops problem got the student body riled, a portion of it anyway...
...Niga . . . JOE WATSON HAS A BIG HAIRY PUSSY Joe Watson, our favorite Vice-Chancellor of Undergraduate Affairs, has come out of the closet...
...More than thirty-five companies rectness stifles learning...
...He was away on January 15-16, believing his research done, and missed the first two days of what some called "the '60s in the '90s...
...Scribble, scribble...
...As it has turned out, Muir is by far the most popular...
...The time was right...
...The feminine gaze is always already colonized," he goes on, "by the masculine gaze—the feminine gaze is never sovereign...
...Its manifesto reads in part, "Capitalism is the underlying source of so much injustice and suffering that it must be replaced," though of course "we are opposed to all forms of dictatorship...
...Feminist, not feminine...
...Otherwise they, the people, would shut it down...
...We first meet the "structure" of the masculine gaze in Europe, during the Renaissance, and this is no accident, for this is when the scientific method, capitalism, and the mechanical reproduction of images arose together...
...His sincerity is of the twinlde-eyed variety, and returning the poster he says, "This is awful stuff—racist...
...Save the Co-ops...
...One of the criteria is that the students love it...
...In fact, he's a virtuoso at it...
...Indeed, it was hard to get any sort of rise out of these young, clean, fit, quiet, polite Americans and hyphenated Americans...
...There is a wistful air about the manual, as if the powers-that-be had been having it their own way for too many years now...
...The living Arnold Schoenberg, we're talking about, who graduated from UCSD a few years ago and belongs to the doomed Caucasian majority...
...There must be a real struggle over resources, power...
...Watson is relieved that his little secret is out and he says that he plans to show off his pussy and will even let students play with it if they want to...
...Although the break-in surprised and offended many kids, not just the progressives, it has not raised the UCSD curtain on a replay of the sixties, because "the broader issue" for most isn't student power at all but getting a degree and a job...
...Your curious reporter removed this poster and filed it in his notebook to ask Lauren and Greg about...
...Or as goldminer William Kelley said about the Chinese in San Diego in 1882: "[they] are quick, industrious and persevering...
...But he never got the chance...
...A senior, Lauren puts in forty hours a week at the Food Co-op and the Recycling Co-op...
...Poker-faced: "Not at all...
...But the crowd isn't buying such weasing...
...departments, courses, and tenured faculty as victories...
...Take the excellent Nicholas Jolley of the Philosophy Department, an Englishman in a yellow necktie...
...Irregularities in their accounting practices have opened the university to the possibility of lawsuits...
...At 11 a.m.," in the words of the twice-weekly UCSD Guardian, "studentsagain broke into the store and regained control...
...McGill didn't like this refugee from Hitler, nor his ideas, but was determined to prove him wrong...
...It's very good for "exceptionally able students with well-defined academic interests," as Muir's ad says...
...But it actually laid down an important principle...
...said a Caucasian male...
...The next morning, the library was open for business, and a table was set up in the lobby for collecting signatures...
...X. My Kind of Radical you have tenured radicals at UCSD, and then you have tenured radicals...
...says another...
...It does not inhere in the blood line...
...revolution, in a system where the customer is always right, may have an even shorter career than other revolutions, and thus might do less cumulative harm...
...He vows it won't be with a corporation, not CNN and not Sony...
...with Ronald Berman...
...These were benign frolics even when tear gas was fired by the cops...
...He was apt to be kidded in the Lampoon, but never, ever got the Koala treatment...
...Lauren's dad isn't in a position to cover her expenses—he's just the foreman, not the owner, of a vineyard in Carmel, home of Joan Baez and Clint Eastwood...
...McGill isn't sure that this isn't a recipe for big political trouble...
...Sure, in an American recession, R&D is the first thing to be chopped, but his own grant doesn't seem to be in danger, maybe because, as the PR brochure on it says, it's to "help the U.S...
...V On the Lecture Circuit 4 4 oG tta jet, you guys," said a Caucasian sincerely to a couple of female students as he mounted his customized skateboard...
...Arnold Schoenberg...
...You're on...
...David evidently loves his electrical engineering for P.C...
...You apparently can't have everything—what Berman calls "stability" in the young doesn't coexist with the itch of curiosity, at least not these days...
...To "wease" is to speak or behave insincerely, to have ulterior motives...
...Money talks, money helps, little or nothing happens without money, and Atkinson knows its ways...
...The deliberate, basically upbeat Watson rarely uses words like "disastrous...
...There was no dialogue, and no presentiment of violence, not even when a couple of campus cops, one Asian, the other African-American, ever-so-gently steered the long-hairs out...
...Well, said Marcuse, of course—San Diego was "one of the most reactionary communities in the United States," and the capitalists' sly habit of repressing dissent by tolerating it notwithstanding, was unable to tolerate a free university...
...He can identify the dead Arnold Schoenberg and is especially happy with the meaty general education he got in his college...
...The police action set off the burglar alarm, and at 4 a.m...
...Use the phrase `f---in' beaners' " THIS IS WHAT THE KOALA THINKS ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS: "I don't wanna be called YO...
...Some people are leaving early...
...This is thanks, he says, to its hard sciences pedigree and the type of student it draws...
...Maybe he touches on the poor man's sexism, but he leaves no doubt as to the poet's heroism and the universal greatness and relevance of his work...
...Atkinson is also bothered by the lack of appreciation for UCSD in San Diego...
...Flexibility" is the motto here, i.e., no core to speak of, virtually the run of the catalogue to do it your way...
...Ku is about to take eighteen months off to go back east to work on something "more interesting than Star Wars...
...McGill declares himself well satisfied with Third, which was Watson's baby in its formative years...
...A liberal, that is, before liberals went off red meat...
...Lipsitz, however, is anything but colloquial...
...Bullshit...
...He was kept busy on his right flank, too...
...what kind of general education the kids get for their, their parents', and the taxpayers' money...
...What's for sure is that the demographics are closing in on the UC system...
...Poor Rembrandt...
...screamed one of the new bedsheets hung from the Old Student Center...
...The idea was that all the colleges would grow to be roughly the same size...
...Andy, a Caucasian and New Indicator person who has never matriculated, stands out whenever he's on campus, thanks to his bush of naturally orange hair...
...It was like the press trying to get a usable answer out of Margaret Tutwiler, except that the professors are handier with words and a lot more forthcoming...
...Everything," he said with emphasis, "is implicated in the agendas, largely covert, of those power relationships...
...sters...
...For a generation or more, we may have a UC population which includes almost no blacks or Hispanics...
...Resistance came from the UC trustees—known as the Regents—and from some of the Old Money in San Diego...
...The newspaper Scrippses, along with the newspaper Copleys, were the paladins of charity and pull in town, keepers of the conscience of its Old Money...
...One of the smartest kids your reporter met, Jason is no progressive—in fact, he's on the conservative side, which made it interesting for him in his major, Communications...
...Still, he's worried...
...Seemingly innumerable blondes sport those bouncing ponytails...
...A piece of paper," she answers...
...By all measures, UCSD is closing in on UCLA and Berkeley...
...Said the Founder: "You were asking me what are my criteria for a great university...
...Once she gets her diploma in biology and history, she'll be the first college grad in her family...
...44 The American Spectator April 1992 protesters feel positive about that...
...Well, he really wasn't doing that, he was only protecting the university and its students by making sure that irregular accounting and loan practices didn't create liability problems for the university with the co-ops' sundry creditors...
...It's racist, but sometimes it's right on...
...He delegates all responsibility for undergraduate business to Joe Watson, who enforces an alcohol ban on campus...
...Somebody rubbed in Superior Court Judge Milliken's order of the day before—responding to a motion from the co-ops' attorney, Lottie Cohen of L.A., Milliken had restrained the university from closing them, but also ordered the books handed over for audit...
...For uttering Fighting Words in direct speech, any student may be punished...
...Poor Diirer...
...Peter Irons (Ph.D., Rutgers...
...It doesn't fly, not here...
...She explains that the administration and the co-ops have been at war for years...
...Point follows clear point...
...The American way," Irons quipped without bitterness in his lecture "—socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor...
...His idea was to build a full-fledged, world-class campus, and quickly...
...For example, Revelle organized the A-bomb test at Bikini in 1946...
...Skip Groundworks if you're after Solzhenitsyn, Milton Friedman, or P.J...
...And then there's the money: UCSD, with $194 million, will come in fifth this year in the federal R&D sweepstakes, ahead of Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley, and with not a hint of any monhave spun off from R&D here, important players like Hybritech, Immune Response, Gensia Pharmaceuticals...
...Question periods were focused on pinning down as firmly as possible what might be on the exam...
...He has a year of college from back there...
...All of which may lift him clean out of the P.C...
...Up Close C ome what may, your reporter tries to be personable...
...Was he offended by the item in the Koala...
...These kids are too lethargic, or too wise, for that...
...The Asian-American girl walking holding hands with her Caucasian boyfriend is saying a propos of something, "It was, like, weird, you know...
...But it took time, the fracas over Marcuse didn't help, and meanwhile Revelle, a man in a hurry, had to build a subdivision of bungalows near the budding campus for some of his transplants to live in...
...screams a black character to a white TV guy in that 1969 docudrama...
...While some Muirites, like Michael of the conservative California Review, may be in that category, most aren't—Muir is home to lots of kids who want to take it as easy as they can...
...Third also requires math and logic...
...Donald Tuzin has the answer...
...The Regents in the mid-1950s, when Revelle got his bright idea, thought UC had enough campuses...
...itself...
...That worked itself out more or less...
...ever mind—the starkest P.C...
...Yeah, let him construct his reality...
...As if you needed another reason to hate the administration," said the Koala, "along comes this whopper...
...He was tough, maybe too tough, on his baby...
...Deprived of watering holes, students flee the dorms, rent pads by their sophomore year and metamorphose into commuters, and well before that head across the border to Tijuana (TJ) every weekend to get soused...
...Whump...
...She had paid an undiscounted $27.06 for it, including the California sales tax...
...Its free annual "Disorientation Manual" proudly traces the group's roots to the Students for a Democratic Society in the legendary sixties...
...He couldn't give details about that, but did invite your reporter to meet David...
...to what extent Political Corkey business a la Atkin-son's alma mater, Stanford...
...But he never got the chance...
...He's a born teacher who wrote in 1968, presciently, that "the new Jewish radicalism is conservative," and who, when he took leave to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Nixon, persuaded Congress to open the till, implicitly to reclaim culture from the America-haters after the plagues of the 1960s...
...The worst Skiddy had to deal with was the springtime riots—once the excuse was the end of diplomas printed in Latin, another time a plan to chop down sycamores along the Charles to widen Memorial Drive...
...The rest is up to you...
...First, the fact that he instantly and with pleasure agreed to have coffee...
...UC$D Police State...
...Poor Cezanne...
...Laughter, cheers...
...Being married to a Scripps, heading the SIO, and having held a Navy commission made it somewhat less hard for Revelle, whose name appeared on the earliest papers describing what any child today recognizes as the Greenhouse Effect, to make his dream come true...
...He needs to see the books and doesn't plan to let this problem smolder much longer—this is one of the lessons of the sixties: you nip things in the bud...
...Does this mean you have to echo my opinions...
...Yet it's a chore to listen to, and of the bored, fidgeting kids your reporter saw concentrated mainly in P.C...
...He's the surrogate daddy who must be killed...
...They are simply points from which discussion may begin...
...Nor does Lauren hold it against her brother and sister that they both enlisted in the U.S...
...If memory serves, Harvard in the old days lacked a Communications Department...
...Watson always wears a dark suit, dark tie, whiter-than-white shirt on the job—no Kenyatta skullcap, not even tasseled loafers...
...XII...
...Of course, this raises the question of how deeply Berman's own lectures penetrate, not only those on Hemingway and Fitzgerald but on even deader white males like Aristophanes...
...We're getting good value for the dollar now, but who knows...
...Weren't they Fighting Words...
...He says he is looking for work...
...And what about the defenseless kids transcribing Rafael's shtick...
...Is that clear...
...That's the only reason I'm here...
...For he predicts that whatever pain and anger color-blind admissions might beget, and as unjust as it might be, American non-whites will eventually be better off having to get into college on their own steam...
...Maybe progress is possible...
...He was throwing shredded paper about while Col...
...Also headquartered in the Old Student Center is the New Indicator collective, which occasionally publishes a newspaper of the same name...
...We encourage good taste, but we prefer to err on the side of free speech...
...There were seven prodigies around a table meeting the eye-patched, jovial Waldorf, six of them Asian-American...
...He knows it...
...Your reporter was soon under the impression that the regulation had either been perfectly internalized, or hadn't been necessary in the first place...
...With the books being pored over by accountants and the whole case in the hands of lawyers, the Co-op War goes on, but so do classes and exams, uninterrupted...
...The unique part is that each college fashions its own required courses for general education...
...It took a sensational move by the administration...
...Is she grateful for her education...
...Persian pussy cat...
...When it's explained to him, David understands in a flash and says he's never run into it himself, but a former roommate at Third, another Taiwanese immigrant, mentioned that his writing prof always dumped on Reagan in class...
...Some of the articles are horribly dated—especially the one accusing UCSD of being the tool of forces "currently responsible for the mindless drift toward World War Three...
...hands or were purpose-built...
...For cliques and fashions need departmental status to endure, and departments live and die, get their budgets or see them cut, according to the number of kids who sign up for their offerings...
...And then, with a tacit okay by the administration, they spent the night in the undergraduate library on Revelle Plaza...
...When it's explained to him, David understands in a flash and says he's never run into it himself, but a former roommate at Third, another Taiwanese immigrant, mentioned that his writing prof always dumped on Reagan in class...
...Marcuse had been imported a few years earlier to beef up the non-sciences...
...Big names in the hard sciences, and the soft ones and humanities also, were to be lured to La Jolla...
...And the teacher, in jeans, developing the topics of knowledge, the omniscience of God, and free will, adopts the usual friendly stance...
...Take Rafael...
...Volunteer to help out with the donkey show 17...
...If I said that I knew that the Regents were in the next room swilling gin and watching dirty movies, you could say after going over to check that I didn't have true knowledge...
...Paths lead through the trees to the various colleges: structured Revelle, easier Muir, multicultural Third, Warren for engineers, fledgling Fifth...
...This is nothing less than a Great Books & Ideas of Western Civilization survey course...
...34 The American Spectator April 1992 readily admits that the teaching is great—he has nothing to complain of when it comes to the education UCSD has afforded him on the cheap...
...On and off campuses everywhere, he expects things to be difficult as affirmative action is phased out...
...The professor agrees with Berman that due to its hard sciences and technology birthright, neither ucsp's faculty nor its students "are very argumentative...
...Whaddabout...
...A cultural and political non-progressive and one of Revelle's earliest recruits in the humanities, the professor is lecturing today on A Farewell to Arms...
...So far, he's in the country on a student visa...
...One and all were Arnie's victims, and none of them, like, protested, far less punched him in the mouth...
...This is one of those new provinces of the contemporary university that is "inter-disciplinary," meaning it has license to raid history, art history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, literature, and what-have-you...
...from MIT...
...UCSD's accomplishments in fusion energy research, Alzheimer's, digital communications, and other hot fronts have put it on the non-military, non-tourist map, just as Roger Revelle wanted...
...But here in fin-de-siecle La Jolla, the teachers with their Ph.D.s from Stanford, Berkeley, the Ivies, Chicago and Oxbridge were all brilliant, dedicated, friendly, clear, organized, sincere, valuableRevelle in his old age was wrong and Atkinson could relax.1 Not only the hard sciences and engineering, but whole departments in the social sciences and even a few in the humanities are uninfected by P.C...
...Asians Not a bad characterization of Walter Ku...
...He wrote a book about it after returning from Columbia...
...Curiously, the manual doesn't count the advent of P.C...
...He lopes quickly around the campus, gray-small get-together...
...And last, he really does seem to be fair...
...Finding himself at Third College as a freshman, he quickly transferred to Warren to escape all those core and diversity and extra writing courses an engineer can live without...
...T he protesters sought to lump all their complaints into one package—the break-in, the beer ban, the UCwide fee hikes—and wrap it up in neo–New Left rhetoric, in hopeful imitation- of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley long ago...
...News's greatly feared annual college roundup, you could do worse than drop in on Richard Atkinson, UCSD's chancellor of the last twelve years...
...Any questions...
...The SIO, with its pier poking beyond the surf in the Edenic suburb of La Jolla, had been an arm of the UC All this under a blue sky hardly tainted by smog—the F-18s from the Miramar Naval Air Station love exercising in it—and a sun analogous to a mother's love...
...What's the good of free speech if no one gives a damn...
...First there was Kid Frost doing Chicano Rap—truculent, sexist, bilingual...
...This wasn't something he planned to get into in this lecture, but it was Descartes who separated the body from the soul, making the masculine gaze and surveillance as we know it possible...
...On this campus, such words didn't get uttered even in indirect speech, perhaps didn't get thought...
...The American Spectator April 1992 43 "Most of the bitterness of that period has dissipated," claims Watson...
...Sixth, he knows his subject, his political science, Hobbes, Locke, and the Constitution, inside-out...
...No kid interviewed by your reporter had his mind so powerfully focused on his work and future as David, which at UCSD is saying a lot...
...The Koala...
...courses, but none is SRO like Irons's course...
...South African holdings, and the only progressive "enclave" remaining are the co-ops, which "function, to some extent, as microcosms of what a socialist society would be like...
...They paraded with torches around the campus, shouting "EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE...
...They spoke of Gegahertzes, they spoke of substrates...
...For there was his second aim, his message, finally made explicit: "A vision," said Lipsitz, "is not enough...
...Herbert Marcuse, the 69-year-old neo-Marxist guru of the young revolutionaries and inventor of the concept of "repressive tolerance...
...Overlooking it was a mesa with nothing on it except pines, eucalyptus, chaparral, and Camp Mathews, a Marine base that Revelle's friends on active duty were ready to part with if he really needed it...
...Every time a student exited the main bookstore with a just-autographed copy of Under Fire, he pounced...
...In fact, Rafael discloses, "the mechanical reproduction of images, that is, surveillance, can only happen in capitalist societies...
...There's the Nonlinear Science building, the gleaming Career Services Building, the supercomputer facility humming beneath its outsize dish like a visitation from another galaxy, the International Relations and Pacific Studies complex from the picture windows of which you can see the world's largest ocean and the vast student parking lots...
...Irons...
...The great student revolt was a product of "idealism" and a symptom of "extended adolescence in post-industrial society," aggravated by Vietnam, wrote McGill, and he wasn't the only one...
...Who knows how many thousands of hours at the beach or in front of the tube or between the earphones of a Walkman these mainly white, mainly middle-class, mainly Southern California adults-to-be have spent by the time they matriculate...
...It's not right—why should ancient history dog the present...
...At the risk of sounding optimistic, your reporter finally tended to agree with Berman...
...Or as Michael of the California Review said, "Outrageous...
...More to the point, he wondered how much of Jolley's knowledge, reasonableness, and eloquence was traveling over if not right through the heads of most of his wide-awake, busily note-taking students with their ponytails and backwards Dodgers caps...
...What's that...
...T he fact that they are generally better with numbers than words can be deduced from their overheard talk...
...It "objectifies" its "object," which is usually, though not necessarily, "an anatomical female...
...Really...
...On top of Humanities, the masochistic Revelle boys and girls must take a dollop of physics, math, chemistry, and a foreign language, plus, new this year, a course given by either the History or Ethnic Studies department on "the interaction of two or more culturally identifiable groups in the U.S...
...She edits the California Review...
...But as a compendium of P.C., the manual is unrivaled, and some of its formulations are pungent indeed: "[The Regents] believe, as did Hitler's Eichmann, that students should sit quietly at their desks...
...This man's accomplishment had been to keep the tender young campus open and working, at a time when, if it had been shut down or the National Guard called in, UCSD might never have grown to be what it is...
...Looming near and over the center is the very good Central Library...
...For, essentially, he's the dean of students, the man or woman on any campus who is paid to tell them, sincerely, "You must do this, you can't do that...
...Anyone in any UCSD college may take any course and major in any subject...
...This wasn't easy, but as David says, "No pain, no gain...
...No, we want to hear what he has to say...
...The ivy is young and tentative on the dorms of the five colleges, and on the graduate schools, including Medicine...
...The question has thrown him...
...lecture your reporter N slipped into wasn't Lipsitz's but "Intro to Communications," with Vicente Rafael (Ph.D., Cornell...
...But here, computer logic is mandatory, a tip-off that this is a college where engineers-to-be from Taiwan can get on with their game plans...
...To make things slightly easier for himself, and as a measure of gen ed, your reporter decided to ask kids whether they knew who Arnold Schoenberg, the dead one, was...
...Irons gave no such warning...
...Sufficient numbers will do so only if the work is ridiculously easy, thematerial sticks to the ribs, or the degree in the major is a passport to a good job, something it has not been for gringo Greg...
...So he wasn't going to say or do anything...
...Which isn't to say that he's masochistic...
...UCSD got away with a relatively mild case of the sickness, according to Berman, and with few permanent ill effects...
...What's she going to do...
...Of course, with the likes of Prof...
...The Ex-Chancellor 4 4 eN ver heard of it," claims William J. McGill in his office in the McGill building...
...What Berman approvingly calls the "pragmatism" of most students here makes them bad material for such indoctrination, compared with, say, the high flyers at Stanford...
...Helix...
...I don't want to be caricatured like D'Souza caricatured some of my friends," was Lipsitz's stated reason for refusing to be interviewed...
...A crowd with not a black or yellow face in it...
...Peasant dresses, torn jeans, and Birkenstocks hold their own against Reeboks and sweatshirts...
...Tuzin, it seems, visited Harvard recently—how wonderful, he says, it would be to hear at UCSD the kind of "intellectual talk" he heard in the Freshman Union there...
...Well, in fact, as the minutes drag by there is less and less stenography, more and more glazing-over of young eyes, yawning, and even, here and there, yes, there can't be any doubt about it, grumbling...
...The co-ops are financed by the students, by a cut from student fees, but the administration wants to kill them and put in commercial vendors, so she says, and if the "apocalypse" of this war comes, the "apathetic, naive, ignorant" mass of students will be mobilizable...
...Your reporter overheard no verbalized Caucasian resentment of Asian-origin geeks—none at all...
...Unusual indeed was a word from the floor in a lower-level humanities or social science lecture addressing the material in its own right, much less challenging the professor...
...As fashionable as the perversion of learning for ideological ends has become, and as solidly as the P.C...
...His fast-talking presentation was chock-a-block with polysyllabic jargon...
...If lots of others could benefit from the billions thus allocated—if humanists in addition to engineers could get a piece of the action, if San Diego County, buffered from the inferno of L.A...
...Certain kinds of linguistic orthodoxies have come to be demanded, especially in the humanities," he says...
...I'm not explaining this very well, but just trust me, OK...
...Your reporter entertains, then excludes, the possibility that Lauren's young man is putting him on...
...But their average SAT scores are public record-524 Verbal, 617 Math...
...One in three of these not-particularly-grateful kids, however, gets some fee relief...
...Granted, some of the revolutionaries of yesteryear have job security at UCSD today, including in Berman's own Department of Literature, where they spread the deconstructionist, neo-Marxist, multicultural, feminist, illiberal faith—Roger Kimball's infamous tenured radicals...
...More than any other state, California was to reap the benefits, the UC system especially...
...Why are you screwing us...
...For there are other "ways of looking," namely "feminist ways," allowing us to "critique" the "structure," turn it against itself to redress the power balance...
...Your reporter would place him in the tradition of the muckraker radical intellectual, an all-American tradition compared with the Stalinoid, hand-me-down Continentalism of P.C., and one which in small doses can positively brace a university...
...George Lipsitz of the Ethnic Studies department wears Harris tweeds and pops caramels...
...If the chanting was ragged, Arnie's drumming was nonstop and professional...
...It The American Spectator April 1992 41 seemed to be, so on to the day's business...
...For all its amenities—nationality food outlets, a waterfall, movie theater, record store, ballroom, recreation halls, bookstore, and study lounges—it hasn't triggered the hoped-for and necessary love...
...left-hander, did his thing inside for 250 patient buyers and fans in a line snaking from greeting cards all the way to faculty publications...
...Revelle spoke thus before construction of the Price Center...
...All this, a few months after the ashes of the man whose baby UCSD is had been scattered offshore...
...He told us last week that he has a big hairy pussy...
...What of organized P.C...
...You could have heard a pin drop in that classroom...
...But a few of the sights and sounds on the seventeenth did take him back a few decades...
...The bulletin board in the Old Student Center is always a horn of plenty...
...A pugnacious Ronald Reagan sat in the governor's mansion, insisting that UC clean up its act, otherwise he would do it himself...
...Take Philosophy 160 with the young, bald, bearded Michael Mendelsohn (Ph.D., UCSD...
...In conclusion, the chancellor gave your reporter a copy of a recent paper he co-authored, "Equilibrium in the Research University...
...As, the modest ex-chancellor hastens to point out, does the object of the Koala's attentions, Joe Watson...
...His telephoned requests for interviews were like pebbles down a bottomless well...
...When the black cat shoots, then he really lives...
...What's that...
...classes like Rafael's, there could be some who'll understand that the reason for their distress is that there's more, much more to the world than this doctrine says, that the "liberal education" being foisted on them is really a thin gruel of propaganda...
...Passive as most UCSD students are most of the time, you sense that their restlessness whenever a rap video isn't distracting them worries their multiculturalist, Marxist, and feminist professors, and with good reason...
...Listening, your badly educated reporter was charmed, and wondered if he hadn't been a callow punk on whom Harvard was inevitably wasted...
...Start a co-op, maybe go to medical school...
...At UCSD, the department is home to some of the people who years ago were prevented by Watson from naming Third College after Emiliano Zapata and Patrice Lumumba and running it accordingly...
...Among the seniors this year at Revelle is Jason, who hails from an American Graffiti–like hometown in the San Joaquin Valley...
...At least it was appalling to your out-of-it reporter, who believes that he is not a great racist, who has always dug Tito Puente, Miles Davis, and B.B...
...Busy as he is, he gave your reporter a nice chunk of time in his office in the sleek Engineering Building...
...David didn't know who the living one is, let alone the dead one...
...Instant Gratification"—in the knowledge of who he is and the realization that there are, in the friendly Berman's words, "many things worse than war—defeat, for example...
...He's not glad about this, nor is he sad...
...The local chapters of SDS and the Black Panthers demanded that UCSD (1) cut loose from the military-industrial complex, and (2) get their approval on course and tenure decisions...
...Her mom only got her high school diploma a couple of years ago...
...Intertextuality," for example, and "scopophilia," pleasure in looking...
...The professor seems almost, yet not quite, sorry about that...
...North, a Edward Norden is a regular contributor to The American Spectator and the New Republic...
...The noise at point-blank range hurt, and Arnie's wasn't the only instrumental noise being made...
...what if any undergraduate life of the mind there is at this up-and-corner...
...And like McGill, Irons thinks that free speech reigns at UCSD, though unlike the ex-chancellor he thinks it's the leftists who must risk a great deal to exercise it...
...The stated aim of the major in communications is not, God forbid, to train people for careers "in advertising, journalism, production, or public relations...
...The oath itself was redundant in his case, since the first ex-con perhaps ever to go to Harvard Law has a reputation among UCSD's non-progressives for meat-and-potatoes teaching and stout fairness, a reputation he mentions without prompting—"I've been favorably reviewed by the California Review, you know...
...More was to come...
...Five minutes Rafael goes on about Descartes, seven minutes...
...Meeting the protesters in his usual suit-and-tie on the lawn outside the vacationing Atkinson's office, Watson told them he was happy they'd come and would be even happier to answer their questions...
...in 1968, shortly before Lauren's birth, after her dad got in trouble in his native Guatemala...
...An upsidedown pyramid of glass fully utilized from morning to midnight, it's one of the few interesting buildings around, Engineering being another...
...It's what's happening in some UCSD departments, and especially what's brewing out there in the state and the nation, that gives him pause...
...The Founder T he lanky Roger Revelle seems to have been a WASP liberal in word and deed...
...Out-of-staters, unless they can wangle residency, pay $10,185 in yearly fees, which is about what it costs the state to educate an undergrad, while the Californians grouch about having to pay the lousy greedy Regents $2,486, which if Governor Pete Wilson has his way with the legislature will jump next fall to $3,036, double the hit The American Spectator April 1992 35 five years ago...
...In spite of that, he wasn't made welcome by the departments of Literature, Communications, Visual Arts, Ethnic Studies, Third World Studies, and Women's Studies—i.e., those departments that have either fallen into P.C...
...Now the jargon of P.C...
...Bitch though they do at the drop of a hat, most of the kids appreciate that fact...
...If today UCSD is a fixture in a town it has done a lot to civilize, and if it is the plaything neither of the ideologues on campus nor the politicians and lobbies outside, McGill deserves a healthy portion of the credit...
...If you seek Revelle's monument, take a walk around the campus which has spread on the mesa...
...The skateboarder and the young women scribble away...
...I could have 38 The American Spectator April 1992 skipped college for all the good it's done me," says gloomy Greg...
...You're reminded of the CEO of a large firm...
...Most, however, gladly signed...
...the substance and atmospherics...
...A classic American adage has it that you get what you pay for...
...Revelle, the oldest, is the least understanding, making you study two years' worth of Humanities...
...His topic the day his lecture was infiltrated was "the masculine gaze...
...He was careless enough to allow a perfect stranger to sit in on his smallish "Ethnic Images in Film" class, which of course includes clips and videos...
...The usual extra-curricular cornucopia available to American collegians, making them the envy of the world—so usual and ordinary, in fact, that it wouldn't be worth mentioning, but for the following poster stuck among the rest: THIS IS WHAT THE KOALA THINKS ABOUT MEXICANS: "Bottom Five Things to do in TJ 1. Piss on a, cop's shoescholarship after the latest fee hikes...
...Greg, her boyfriend, child of gringos, also a progressive, received his UCSD degree in communications last year...
...The number one problem with a university is money...
...Whump...
...I don't want to be caricatured like D' Souza caricatured some of my friends...
...It was three days before the vice-chancellor would march in the UCSD contingent in the Martin Luther King Day parade in downtown San Diego, and now he seemed to have no special problem keeping his temper with this almost-yet-not-quite ugly crowd...
...Second, his language, 99.9 percent free of with-it cant...
...One of those bedrock ordeals," he called it, when he was "caught between an opaque state administration and ruthless campus adversaries...
...VII...
...in organic chemistry from UCLA...
...Her family came to the U.S...
...There has been no rebellion on Lauren's part against her parent's fairly left-wing views...
...Ethnicity," Lipsitz reminded his students, "is a construct...
...UCSD lacks communal spirit, Jason goes on...
...All this under a blue sky hardly tainted by smog—the F-18s from the Miramar Naval Air Station love exercising in it—and a sun analogous to a mother's love...
...At UCSD, you get considerably more...
...Oh, that's the humor magazine...
...This new-type game required a major-league research university in town, and that, Revelle said, required letting new-type people into La Jolla...
...No, this is indirect speech," explains the vice-chancellor, handing back the anonymous poster...
...The question came up in other lectures, too, especially when the professor interrupted himself to try to involve the youngapologized for wasting his time...
...He kept his temper when, after he claimed that the administration had always behaved in perfectly good faith, somebody burped...
...Best of all, in praising Hemingway to the skies, Berman seems to be preparing to introduce the disturbing idea that, preoccupied though he is by morality, the writer finally and erroneously and unforgivably believes everything is chaotic...
...Fourth, the fact that he's paid his, dues, having gone to jail for thirty months in the sixties in preference to registering for the draft—a conviction vacated after he served his time...
...The ex-chancellor is a white-haired, shirt-sleeved, crew-cut gent, an authority on reaction times...
...as she is taught...
...As for alcohol, it and learning don't go together, that's well known, and he has no plans to change the policy, although he knows it's unpopular...
...The Chamber of Commerce quickly signed on, and General Dynamics paid for the first appointment to the faculty...
...They're too sensiYou apparently can't have everything—what Berman calls "stability" in the young doesn't coexist with the itch of curiosity, at least not these days...
...A Pre—Affirmative Action Baby he vice-chancellor's T office is catty-corner from Atkinson's in a very modest compound with a square of lawn in the middle...
...If you say that God knew everything that Mendelsohn would do before Mendelsohn was even born, what choice will I really have tonight when I have to decide between Alpo and Ken-L-Ration for dinner...
...The odd-numbered colleges—Revelle, Third, Fifth—load on the most general requirements...
...Expelled by Dr...
...Such words include, but are not limited to, those terms widely recognized to be derogatory references to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, and other personal characteristics...
...It's rather to give them "a solid liberal arts background" so they can proceed to graduate studies or "professional work in a number of communications-related fields"—for example, "teaching in the elementary and secondary schools" of California...
...you never see a Chinese lolling about, or amongst the group of idlers...
...LL.D., Harvard Law) is a professor in the Political Science department who, by his own description, holds down the department's "left end...
...Wanna sign the petition...
...The point, however, is not that Mendelsohn is an entertainer, but that every few minutes he's pleased to be interrupted by questions and comments demonstrating comprehension, and something more...
...The Koala...
...If any of the kids responded in the same way to the violently racist and exploitative stuff on the two monitors, they didn't show it...
...An "inhuman, monstrous" situation...
...They did so not because they bought the global agenda, nor because they thought that Governor Wilson or the Regents might change their minds, but because it would set a bad precedent to shell out more without protesting...
...Does the level of lecturing at UCSD connote and inspire a genuine life of the mind among undergrads, or does it obscure their real business, i.e., racking up grades...
...More kids are trying to get in to major in everything from biology to music, fewer are being accepted, more of those accepted matriculate and fewer of those matriculated drop out or switch to other campuses of the incredible, wobbling UC system...
...Irons over coffee labels himself a Eugene V. Debs socialist, of all things...
...And so your sanguine reporter went to see Joe Watson...
...T rue, when asked what his prime concern is, Atkinson said, "To make sure the faculty stays top-notch...
...Yet having complained, Jason Not only the hard sciences and engineering, but whole departments in the social sciences and even a few in the humanities are uninfected by P.C...
...The latter everywhere in the UC system allegedly study as if possessed, making the former work even harder or be obliterated by the curve...
...32 The American Spectator April 1992 II...
...Hemingway is making his modernist point by educating Frederick Henry—"Mr...
...Does it have a future as sunny as the California winter...
...The Co-op Wars Watson was to get an earful a couple of weeks later...
...He was amazed, because unless his memory was going, the professors at Harvard had tended to be dull...
...thing...
...t was hard for the kids to write as fast as Lipsitz talked...
...He engineered a one-year reappointment for the over-age professor, after which Marcuse had to take mandatory retirement—a denouement that remains a scandal in the eyes of the progressives, a triumph of expediency over virtue...
...A ripple of dubious laughter...
...Again, the lecturers who speak to hundreds of freshmen and sophomores at a time come from all departments, but here they are selected fortheir radical or super-liberal slant, which most do not project too crudely...
...Most of the doings and denizens make it the nearest thing on campus to a liberated zone...
...The Big Picture preoccupies Atkinson, maybe has to preoccupy the poor man...
...Another few days on campus following the great excitement convinced your reporter that they're probably too wise...
...The diploma he got from a high school in Orange County, entitling him to a place at UC, was thanks to his hard work and the fact that his dad, the owner of a teahouse in Taipei, sent him over to live with his aunt when he was 15 and hardly knew a word of English...
...The co-ops are meant to be a learning experience...
...Rumors of Watson's troubles and achievements as provost of Third reached McGill on Morningside Heights...
...For one thing, modesty forbids him from mentioning that thirty-four chairs have been endowed on his watch, mainly in the hard and medical sciences, but also Drama and Chinese Studies and Political Science...
...Watson-the-lightning-rod believes affirmative action in higher education is on the way out, giving it ten years at the most...
...In 1957, in the wake of Sputnik, a cloudburst of dollars and taxpayer understanding suddenly rained on the heads of American scientists...
...Before telling the hundreds of dutifully note-taking boys and girls what that is, he reminded them that "all gender relations are relations of shifting, unequal power...
...A piece of paper," she answers...
...Ku has an ongoing grant from the National Science Foundation to design the next generation of ultra-high-speed integrated circuits...
...Nor did either know what the dead Arnold Schoenberg's claim to fame is, though Lauren took "Making of the Modern World" at Fifth, and Greg took "Dimensions of Culture" at Third...
...This is a first-generation American speaking...
...All students should patronize and defend them...
...We are all grateful to Mr...
...The UC system is "trying to cut down on us," meaning on Asians, and stateside research slots, as the IBM man said, are fewer for the time being, due to the economic situation and the whimpering end of the Cold War...
...Ditto one of those innumerable blondes sporting bouncing ponytails, UCSD sweatshirt, roomy shorts, cotton socks and Reeboks...
...A girl had colored her hair green, her fingernails black...
...He thinks about the consequences of the military-industrial complex going on the dole...
...What did Roger Revelle, the late, by-now-legendary founder of UCSD, say on that subject...
...courses...
...Nearly all the 14,529 undergrads come from in-state—the blonde Sherry from Twin Falls, Idaho, is exceptional in this and other respects...
...may have trouble competing in the market...
...Yet his faith is that a university where great research is done, like UCSD, can also be one where undergrads in all the majors have reason to be happy...
...He teaches Milton in historical and theological context...
...In other words, though not the very brightest and/or driven of their statewide high school class, they're up there, a few cuts below the monsters who claw their way into Stanford and Yale...
...But the main reaction was no reaction...
...What does this mean to her...
...Contract a disease from someone named `Juanita' 18...
...And the reason it didn't work out is that college professors, university professors, are essentially fi Roger Revelle 4 -;\\V...
...The majority of non-Caucasians who get into the system on pure merit are and will be Asian-Americans...
...What's for sure is that there are no crenelated walls around these colleges...
...some co-op types arrived, broke in, changed the locks back, and locked themselves in...
...If this be the price of keeping P.C...
...Nor, smiling apologetically, could he identify the Koala...
...Someone has scratched an obscenity on a wall in one of the men's rooms, but "Lassie Eats Chickens" is more typical of UCSD graffiti...
...The worst thing at UCSD isn't to be a geek, however, but a "weasel," that is, insincere...
...Lipsitz was suspected by your reporter of having a good mind...
...Joe must go...
...Or to be more exact, where they try to spread it...
...But I'm not politically conservative...
...111) journeymen professionals" who have their minds on their departments...
...Dropping in on a few upper-division lectures in certain departments, just to see what effect things were having if any, he discovered that not all the action at the undergraduate level is one-way—not all classes feature great professors talking while mobs of students dumbly transcribe some of their words...
...Stop the fee hikes...
...Lipsitz was suspected by your reporter of having a good mind...
...McGill, president of Columbia for a whole decade starting then, did as much as anyone to save it from the Visigoths, exactly what he was hired to do...
...And not much more at the Grove Cafe, in the funky Old Student Center that functions as a rival hub...
...Unlike at other UC campuses lately, there were no police and no arrests, just a couple of TV crews...
...This she does because she's in accord with the goals of the co ops, and because she needs the dough, having she says lost most of the value of her Once she gets her diploma in biology and history, she'll be the first college grad in her family...
...You can't just imagine yourself free...
...at bay, the professor is determined to pay it with a smile...
...appeals a painted bedsheet draped from The American Spectator April 1992 37 a balcony facing the Hump, a grassy knoll below...
...Your reporter saved his question about that publication for last, when he went to see Joe Watson...
...You can still say what you want, there's freedom of speech, yes, but it takes courage sometimes to say it...
...JOE MUST GO...
...is easy to learn and no problem to spout...
...Encountering your reporter several times afterwards on campus, he wouldn't return his glad hello...
...Laughter...
...Yeah—I'm grateful to myself...
...Loud, delighted laughter...
...Its "Dimensions of Culture" sequence has Locke and Madison on its list, and many readings tending to favor affirmative action, the right to abortion, conscientious objection, and so on...
...Now he has learned to speak it more than well enough to be interviewed...
...Laughter...
...Oddly enough, some of these complaints were adumbrated by Revelle himself in an oral history for ticsD's twenty-fifth anniversary in 1985...
...The firemen Irons taught in night school in Boston gave him more arguments...
...Arnie had his drum...
...Indeed, the impression your reporter took away after a month on campus is that free speech is basically safe at UCSD, though P.C...
...What's the Koala...
...And how do you get them to do that...
...It has never happened here...
...It took digging to establish that the two geeks with whom V., a Caucasian male, was assigned to room in freshman year were Asians...
...It is relieved only by the occasional Bhagavad-Gita assigned by one or another of the professors involved, most of whom are nominally tied to Revelle but whose main affiliation is with the all-university departments of Philosophy, Literature, History, Theatre, and Music...
...There was some black-andwhite Charlie Chan, some black-and-white Stepin Fetchit, some Technicolor Medium Cool by Haskell Wexler—"You are the ones who exploit and emasculate...
...The P-word lets the cat out of the bag...
...Berkeley, where he was a graduate student, an "area around the campus where the students can be themselves . . . restaurants, and beer joints .. . everything to make the students happy...
...I have a deep respect for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, which I carry with me all the time," he told his Standing Room Only class on the first day of the winter quarter, extracting a little black book from his pocket...
...What does this mean to her...
...For a quarter-century this large, bespectacled man has been at UCSD, arriving having graduated from public school in Harlem, majored in chemistry at the City College of New York (when tuition was $9 per year), and earned a Ph.D...
...In 1925, his father was the first Chinese to get a Ph.D...
...They've generated employment and won prestige for a town that used to begin with the Navy and end with General Dynamics...
...On his return in 1980, he found the scene of his ordeal again "benign, alThe American Spectator April 1992 39 most languid," and Third College a successful experiment in "minority education...
...Which might be all right if communications at UCSD didn't boil down to what it does...
...This is not to say that anyone was morally obliged to give 40 The American Spectator April 1992 him the time of day, or that he had no chance to see and hear P.C...
...At around 1:30 a.m., January 15, 1992, university police broke into the General Store Co-op, changed the locks, and left...
...Keep strolling...
...Third, his extramural work as a lawyer in the real world, even if that means representing the ACLU and a couple of atheists in a pending suit against the city of San Diego and a giant cross on Mt...
...JOE MUST GO...
...Watson says he's glad the (continued on page 46) "The feminine gaze colonized," Rafael goes gaze—the feminine ga is always already on, "by the masculine ze is never sovereign...
...A still younger McGill had made his administrative name at UCSD in the very special years 1968-70...
...It should go without saying that not only "anatomical females" can look feministically, so to speak...
...T he too-sincere Tuzin was right about brilliant talk, however...
...He has adjunct status, teaching a course in the psychology of student rebellion, keeping up and, he says, being consulted...
...There's Niki de Saint Phalle's landmark sculpture, "Sun God," which looks more like a papier-mâché bird...
...O'Rourke—they don't stock that kind of thing...
...Is he for multiculturalism or against it...
...Announcements of the Marines coming to recruit future pilots, of evangelical Bible study, Greek rushes, prep courses for the Medical College Aptitude Test and Law School Aptitude Test, Chinese movies, lesbian movies, Chicano movies, a meeting of the student council and another of the UCSD chapter of the Objectivists, cars and motorcycles and surfboards and bicycles and dogs and books for sale, air tickets to San Francisco, meditation, Alcoholics Anonymous, Filipino dancing, apartments to share, come hear Ralph Nader...
...It seems to have been easier to bring the Regents and local business types around to the idea of a new campus than it was to persuade the La Jolla Real Estate Brokers Association (REBA) to sell to Jewish professors...
...And, of course, Andrew was there—he always is...
...You can't have a university without having Jewish professors," he years later remembered saying back then to REBA...
...This has made his job even more chronically thankless than it must be anyway...
...He'll tell you that entering SATs are higher than they used to be, and that UCSD is no longer just a hard sciences and engineering Mecca...
...by Camp Pendleton and separated from the Third World by a fence, could burgeon with freeways and aqueducts and new hamlets far into the desert—why not...
...News & World Report, and as he led the chants, Arnie also banged hard, very hard, on his drum...
...Ku has come a long way...
...A female ponytail: "Are you like saying that oil paintings before lithography didn't have this gaze...
...Whump...
...First, however, he had to get to the bottom of this P.C...
...That's the only reason I'm here...
...comprising the known exceptions...
...In his month back at school, he audited three dozen lectures, to his amazement finding none sleep-inducing—none except those in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where the lan36 The American Spectator April 1992 guage of instruction could have been Aramaic...
...The cheerful Lauren wears a beat-up, felt prospector's hat with a band of Navajo metalwork around it...
...Concludes the manual: "This year, students may rise up, studying and struggling, towards a better future...
...Ku and Jerry Waldorf vouching for him, there wouldn't seem to be much danger that he'll have to return to his dynamic little island or take a job washing dishes...
...And he kept his cool when somebody yelled, "We and the faculty are the university—you're the staff, Joe...
...Warren is likewise a college with few requirements...
...Most of his complaints about UCSD, however, can also be heard at the other end of the spectrum, and in between: Atkinson cares about landing the big research grants, not about the undergraduate herd...
...NO FEE HIKES...
...No wonder that according to the student-produced UCSD Course and Professor Evaluation guide (CAPE), Berman is one of the most popular teachers...
...He was born in Peking, taken to Taiwan after the revolution, then immigrated to Philadelphia...
...MIL Epilogue As this issue was going to press, the usual suspects staged a demonstration...
...For another example, when Joe McCarthy was having his day, Revelle said that loyalty oaths for professors were a dumb idea, not a popular thing to say in San Diego at the time...
...One guy in line had said, "I'm exercising my free speech, so shut up," and a girl had said, "I don't owe you an explanation...
...Let's follow him as he dry-surfs to his next class, American Lit...
...But there's a full range of feminist novels and apologies for Fidel, as well as Green-peace buttons and the required reading in P.C...
...Neither Lauren nor Greg seemed as astonished by the content or style of the posted material as your reporter was, or as upset as whoever it was who had copied and put it up...
...There's the non-threatening Student Health Center, with its brochures in English and Spanish on acne and AIDS...
...Then Public Enemy fightin' the power—hypnotic, imbecile, appalling...
...He has at his fingertips birth-rate statistics, immigration projections, budget printouts...
...The dedicated Berman warned of likely interruptions when he agreed to a chat during office hours, yet just one kid materialized...
...The local American Legionnaires and the Copleys' San Diego Union demanded severance for Prof...
...This last is right up Third College's alley...
...The kids move in and out of their classes like shifts in a Honda factory...
...This is especially true in public institutions...
...The action would be televised on the local evening news...
...U As Revelle saw it, the colleges would take after Oxbridge, where dons and students interact in a cozier setting than the whole university, but with the whole university at their disposal...
...Army to get ahead...
...And ditto a very large, crewcut type, also carrying Under Fire, who, if the University of California at San Diego were a different kind of place, might be getting his undergraduate education on a football scholarship...
...Unfamiliar, scarcely credible history for the clean, fit, polite kids cramming in the Price Center...
...There were those who walked right by, and there were those who walked right by giving the Visual Arts major who was personing the table a none-too-friendly look...
...He talks so fast," one of the girls whispered to another...
...It looked like a stab at old-fashioned guerrilla theater, right here in the sun-drenched, spanking-new Price Center, donated by Sol Price and known to progressives as the High Price Center...
...It certainly did, the lecturer answers bravely and sincerely—it started with Descartes, and he writes the name on the blackboard...
...He'll also explain to you the virtues of UCSD's unique setup of five colleges in one...
...The masculine gaze is "a way of seeing" that has long dominated Western culture...
...Rafael by now has become disorganized, is positively rambling...
...Peopling the UCSD campus on weekdays you have tweeded professors sucking pipes, trousered women faculty, a detachment of temperatelooking cops packing .45s, and thousands of nice, terribly hard-working kids on the move...
...haired, a smile on his face, hurrying from undergraduate lecture to graduate seminar to faculty conference...
...That would be disastrous in terms of community and social costs...
...He's worried about the Great Recession, UC funding cuts putting the 1960 Master Plan at risk, the expected shortfall in American-born hard science and engineering Ph.D.s...
...But that depends on money, budgets, and position in the academic pecking order, statewide and nationwide...
...Furthermore, classes are too big and there's still not enough parking...
...It must have been a scene to remember, as it must have been the next day at the Hump, at the biggest campus rally in years, where between 500 and 1,000 people, according to the Union, were addressed or harangued by, among others, Prof...
...That's right, our Joe Watson is a cat lover who owns a 15 lb...
...Watson's greatest trial so far came in 1973, when he had to announce that the new college of which he was provost wouldn't be called Lumumba-Zapata College...
...Each of the six other protesters had a rattle or cymbals or pair of hollow sticks...
...No reason to despair, however...
...The student must get this core out of the way, together with the departmental requirements of the major, before he gets a diploma...
...As for the local Old Money, much of it was comfortable, thank you, with a gentleman's agreement...
...Comprising eight percent of the population of California, the various Asians are slightly more than one in five UCSD undergrads, almost their share at ucLA—the University of Caucasians Lost among Asians...
...I like him," she says in answer to the question whether any UCSD teachers have made a difference for her...
...Irons's book on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, Justice at War, which he assigns for his "Law and Society" course and informs students they can buy at Groundworks, belongs in this tradition...
...They were booted out at 10:00 by the returning cops and Watson's assistant Tom Tucker, who for an hour searched the store for its books in vain...
...Revelle was retired from the Navy and boss of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
...In need of a shave, unhappy compared with Lauren, he says when asked which books have meant the most to him, "Marx and Engels," though he is unable to explain why...
...For example, this university's records on you are modeled on police files...
...Wanna sign the petition...
...Getting a volunteer to finish a thought or fill in a blank fact was analogous to pulling teeth...
...They sensed that a university could help finish off San Diego as a snug harbor and put it in the big time...
...I mean, did it really start at a certain time in history...
...That was all very well, but your reporter understood his assignment: ignore the graduate programs and the research...
...Greg and Lauren weren't at the pre-confrontation rally for some reason, but Arnie and Andy were certainly there, with their friend Debbie, the Army brat, euphoric in bare feet and clean peasant dress...
...Watson...
...No other public university sends as many of its undergrads to medical school as UCSD does...
...The Gay & Lesbian Organization, a pottery and jewelry workshop, the Grove, the Student Affirmative Action Committee, the various embattled co-ops and Ground-works Books, are here...
...The class, again, is huge...
...He decided to ask him why he was abusing it...
...Hirsch...
...A "geek," not to be confused with a member of one of the Greek frats or sororities, is a person so devoted to studying that he's incapable of socializing—formerly, geeks were called nerds, and when your reporter was at Harvard a generation ago, they were grinds...
...can force it into bizarre shapes: into the Koala, into indirect speech of a kind that gives sophomoric humor a bad name...
Vol. 25 • April 1992 • No. 4
