Posted by
Jill Cowan on Friday, March 28, 2008 06:05 pm
Remember this guy? That’s funny … so do we!
Apparently, the Clog is fast becoming a veritable “Before they Were Stars” source for Berkeley’s street peeps and protesters.
Case in point: Mute Musical on Wheels guy (as we’ll henceforth refer to him) showing up not just in any ol’ Times, but THE New York Times. OK, so maybe he appeared in an online piece in the Travel section, but, hey, it’s still pretty darn high profile.
Aw, don’t they climb up the journalistic ladder so fast? Seems like just yesterday that Mute Musical on Wheels guy was featured right here on the Clog, alongside Jeeves, our “chauffeur,” back when we were pretty much the only ones who covered Code Pink. Go get ‘em (appropriately orange-clad), tiger! read more »
Posted by
sjlee on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 02:54 pm
Timothy Egan’s recent feature in The New York Times
packs more slop into the messy ongoing battle between advocates and opponents of affirmative action in post-secondary education.
The racial roulette for classroom seats is a hot-button issue for California’s public university system in the post-Prop 209 era and, as Egan suggests, particularly so at UC Berkeley.
With the school’s Asian American admission numbers reaching around 46% in the past couple years, Egan’s article focuses
on Berkeley’s consequent administrative and social dynamics issues.
Vital points raised:
- Race-neutral admissions policies vs. gaping discrepancies between inner-city and suburban high schools vs.
cultural capital differences as the main reason for increased admission numbers of Asian American students and the
subsequent drop in African American and Latino freshman counts
- The sticky plurality vs. majority issue as applied to the Asian American minority on this campus
- Lumping a bunch of distinct ethnicities together under the “Asian” umbrella
- Discrepancies in standards among admission candidates of various ethnic minorities
- Stereotypes and ethnic cliques existing without a lot of protest among the students
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