The demonstrators were caught on video blocking Berkeley’s Sather Gate, holding large banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”
Protesters can be heard shouting “Go around!” to white students who attempt to go through the blockade, while students of color are greeted with calls of “Let him through!”

PaleoConPrep wrote:The sole purpose of a university is study.

PaleoConPrep wrote:Berkeley is a joke of a college. It might as as well be called Cultural Marxist State University. I wouldn't go if they paid me to attend. Any White parents who send their kids to a place like this hate themselves and their kids. They are suffering from "white guilt" Blacks and other "oppressed" groups need to be told to shut up or leave the university. The sole purpose of a university is study. If you want to be an agitator, leave the university and agitate elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many of the agitators are EECS majors.



It's like when those sit-ins were happening at princeton - you know the vast majority of those never had to take a class in Fine or Jadwin.

Schools deserve what they get for not following the caltech model of admissions. You never hear of these things happening there - for a reason.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many of the agitators are EECS majors.



It's like when those sit-ins were happening at princeton - you know the vast majority of those never had to take a class in Fine or Jadwin.

Schools deserve what they get for not following the caltech model of admissions. You never hear of these things happening there - for a reason.

What's the caltech model of admissions?

Perhaps the most striking difference from all other elite universities — including institutions like MIT and the University of Chicago which forgo athletic recruitment — is Caltech’s complete indifference to racial balancing. In a state and a region of the country with the largest Hispanic population, Caltech’s entering freshmen class in 2008 was less than 6 percent Hispanic (13 out of 236). The unwillingness to lower standards for a larger black representation is even more striking — less than 1 percent (2/236) of Caltech’s 2008 entering freshmen were listed as “non-Hispanic black”. This “underrepresentation” of blacks and Hispanics, of course, was more than made up for by the huge “overrepresentation” of Asians. Only 4 percent of the U.S. population, Asians made up a whopping 40 percent of the incoming freshmen class in 2008, a slightly larger proportion than the 39 percent figure for whites. Applicants to Caltech are clearly seen as representing only themselves and their own individual merit and achievement, not their race or their ethnic group. As a professor at Caltech who has taught there for many years explained to me in an email, “We try, like our competitors, very, very hard to find, recruit, and nurture underrepresented minorities but we won’t bend our standards.”

Caltech’s third strike in favor of meritocracy involves its indifference to legacy status.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many of the agitators are EECS majors.



It's like when those sit-ins were happening at princeton - you know the vast majority of those never had to take a class in Fine or Jadwin.

Schools deserve what they get for not following the caltech model of admissions. You never hear of these things happening there - for a reason.

What's the caltech model of admissions?

pretty much pure merit. no legacy status, no athletic recruits, no pandering to race hustlers. The development type kids also don't want to go there - not fun enough.

Perhaps the most striking difference from all other elite universities — including institutions like MIT and the University of Chicago which forgo athletic recruitment — is Caltech’s complete indifference to racial balancing. In a state and a region of the country with the largest Hispanic population, Caltech’s entering freshmen class in 2008 was less than 6 percent Hispanic (13 out of 236). The unwillingness to lower standards for a larger black representation is even more striking — less than 1 percent (2/236) of Caltech’s 2008 entering freshmen were listed as “non-Hispanic black”. This “underrepresentation” of blacks and Hispanics, of course, was more than made up for by the huge “overrepresentation” of Asians. Only 4 percent of the U.S. population, Asians made up a whopping 40 percent of the incoming freshmen class in 2008, a slightly larger proportion than the 39 percent figure for whites. Applicants to Caltech are clearly seen as representing only themselves and their own individual merit and achievement, not their race or their ethnic group. As a professor at Caltech who has taught there for many years explained to me in an email, “We try, like our competitors, very, very hard to find, recruit, and nurture underrepresented minorities but we won’t bend our standards.”

Caltech’s third strike in favor of meritocracy involves its indifference to legacy status.