http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129 Did Dolores Huerta hijack Cal State Bakersfield&rsquo;s graduation? That&rsquo;s what several Letter to the Editor writers, a You Tube video poster and a friend and of a friend of mine are saying about the farmworker advocate&rsquo;s commencement speech Saturday. They&rsquo;re complaining she was waaaay too political. A You Tube video of the speech shows she argued that minimum wage should be $25 an hour, that there should be marriage equality (for gays), that farmworkers should get better medical coverage and pay and that millionaires shouldn't be getting government bailout money. She urged people to get their news from places other than Rush Limbaugh, such as from the New York Times, The Nation, Mother Jones and The Progressive. The crowd booed at Huerta when she spoke of union issues and laughed at her when she addressed white supremacists. &ldquo;We can say to those people like the KKK...&rsquo;Get over it. You&rsquo;re Africans, right? Get over it. We are all Africans of different shapes and colors.&rsquo;&rdquo; Cal State spokeswoman Kathy Miller said she hadn&rsquo;t heard any complaints about Huerta&rsquo;s speech but she&rsquo;s checking with the president&rsquo;s office to see if it did. Take a look at the video and tell me what you think. &nbsp;&mdash; Government team leader Christine Bedell Did Dolores Huerta hijack Cal State Bakersfield&rsquo;s graduation? That&rsquo;s what several Letter to the Editor writers, a You Tube video poster and a friend and of a friend of mine are saying about the farmworker advocate&rsquo;s commencement speech Saturday. They&rsquo;re complaining she was waaaay too political. A You Tube video of the speech shows she argued that minimum wage should be $25 an hour, that there should be marriage equality (for gays), that farmworkers should get better medical coverage and pay and that millionaires shouldn't be getting government bailout money. She urged people to get their news from places other than Rush Limbaugh, such as from the New York Times, The Nation, Mother Jones and The Progressive. The crowd booed at Huerta when she spoke of union issues and laughed at her when she addressed white supremacists. &ldquo;We can say to those people like the KKK...&rsquo;Get over it. You&rsquo;re Africans, right? Get over it. We are all Africans of different shapes and colors.&rsquo;&rdquo; Cal State spokeswoman Kathy Miller said she hadn&rsquo;t heard any complaints about Huerta&rsquo;s speech but she&rsquo;s checking with the president&rsquo;s office to see if it did. Take a look at the video and tell me what you think. &nbsp;&mdash; Government team leader Christine Bedell en-us Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:41:28 PDT <p>During my CSUB graduation, a CSUB&nbsp;alumnus and Thomas follower spoke and said something to the effect that I was traumitized when Al Gore won the presidency, fortunately it was fixed. Then she praised George Bush. It was in 2002. Graduation was very boring. My parents forced me to attend.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412088 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412088 <p>During my CSUB graduation, a CSUB&nbsp;alumnus and Thomas follower spoke and said something to the effect that I was traumitized when Al Gore won the presidency, fortunately it was fixed. Then she praised George Bush. It was in 2002. Graduation was very boring. My parents forced me to attend.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>As I&nbsp;listened to this video, the main message seemed to be about the inequities of the system and the importance of working for social justice. Nothing wrong with that.</p> <p>As for the more provocative parts, Huerta is going to say what she is going to say. If CSUB didn't want that, they shouldn't have invited her. It's like asking Malcolm X to make a speech that's not provocative. It's not going to happen. The same people who complained about her talk probably listen in rapt awe when O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush and Savage spew their nonsense.</p> <p>Some people may have disagreed with her, and that's fine, but college students and others better get used to hearing people with different opinions because they'll be doing it their whole lives.&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412102 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412102 <p>As I&nbsp;listened to this video, the main message seemed to be about the inequities of the system and the importance of working for social justice. Nothing wrong with that.</p> <p>As for the more provocative parts, Huerta is going to say what she is going to say. If CSUB didn't want that, they shouldn't have invited her. It's like asking Malcolm X to make a speech that's not provocative. It's not going to happen. The same people who complained about her talk probably listen in rapt awe when O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush and Savage spew their nonsense.</p> <p>Some people may have disagreed with her, and that's fine, but college students and others better get used to hearing people with different opinions because they'll be doing it their whole lives.&nbsp;</p> <p>I don't think a graduation ceremony should have any political leanings.&nbsp; It's supposed to be about the bright stars they all will be and hope for their future.&nbsp; It's supposed to be about THEM since it's THEIR&nbsp;day.</p> <p>All said and done, I've found almost every graduation I've ever been to to be long, tedious and boring.&nbsp; I'd like to see ONE&nbsp; prominent figure speak and the rest of the speeches come from the grads.</p> <p>(I sat through a lot of them because it was improtant to be there for support...whether they admit it or not, most students of any age are darned proud of what they've accomplished.&nbsp; And I'm proud of them enough to sit through <em>e&nbsp; n&nbsp; d&nbsp; l&nbsp; e&nbsp; s&nbsp; s</em>&nbsp; ceremonies.)</p> <p>Huerta needed to give it a rest for just that one day.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412111 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412111 <p>I don't think a graduation ceremony should have any political leanings.&nbsp; It's supposed to be about the bright stars they all will be and hope for their future.&nbsp; It's supposed to be about THEM since it's THEIR&nbsp;day.</p> <p>All said and done, I've found almost every graduation I've ever been to to be long, tedious and boring.&nbsp; I'd like to see ONE&nbsp; prominent figure speak and the rest of the speeches come from the grads.</p> <p>(I sat through a lot of them because it was improtant to be there for support...whether they admit it or not, most students of any age are darned proud of what they've accomplished.&nbsp; And I'm proud of them enough to sit through <em>e&nbsp; n&nbsp; d&nbsp; l&nbsp; e&nbsp; s&nbsp; s</em>&nbsp; ceremonies.)</p> <p>Huerta needed to give it a rest for just that one day.</p> <p>Come on.&nbsp; Haven't you heard the news?&nbsp; Hispanic women and smarter and better than white males.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412120 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412120 <p>Come on.&nbsp; Haven't you heard the news?&nbsp; Hispanic women and smarter and better than white males.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>As usual, I completely agree with Nancy. I went to my sister's graduation at CSUB a couple of years ago. It was boring.</p> <p>I started watching the video, but I couldn't take any more than two minutes of it. Booooooring, and from that two minutes I can say that I believe she did hijack the graduation to use it as political speech. I don't think that is right. Why should students who are there to graduate from CSUB have to listen to her speech? Some of them may agree with her, but many probably did not, and I don't see why anyone who doesn't agree should be forced to listen to it. The majority of them, I bet, didn't care at all what she had to say, so why should they have let her speak at all?</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412125 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412125 <p>As usual, I completely agree with Nancy. I went to my sister's graduation at CSUB a couple of years ago. It was boring.</p> <p>I started watching the video, but I couldn't take any more than two minutes of it. Booooooring, and from that two minutes I can say that I believe she did hijack the graduation to use it as political speech. I don't think that is right. Why should students who are there to graduate from CSUB have to listen to her speech? Some of them may agree with her, but many probably did not, and I don't see why anyone who doesn't agree should be forced to listen to it. The majority of them, I bet, didn't care at all what she had to say, so why should they have let her speak at all?</p> <p>Graduation ceremonies aren't the place for&nbsp;politics.&nbsp;They aren't the place for preaching, either.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412127 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412127 <p>Graduation ceremonies aren't the place for&nbsp;politics.&nbsp;They aren't the place for preaching, either.</p> <p>Used to be graduation was a mandatory affair if a student wanted his diploma. Is this still the norm? Wonder how many grads would attend if given the option of attending the ceremony or simply getting the diploma in the mail.</p> <p>Whatever Ms. Huerta's passions, I doubt the grads are motivated the change the world according to her agenda. They want to put the diploma to work with a job. Good luck with that.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412141 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412141 <p>Used to be graduation was a mandatory affair if a student wanted his diploma. Is this still the norm? Wonder how many grads would attend if given the option of attending the ceremony or simply getting the diploma in the mail.</p> <p>Whatever Ms. Huerta's passions, I doubt the grads are motivated the change the world according to her agenda. They want to put the diploma to work with a job. Good luck with that.</p> <p>Good&nbsp;Lord that was excruciating to sit through.&nbsp; It felt much longer.&nbsp; I think&nbsp;the video is only about half.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>My Favorite Parts:</p> <p>Shout for unity!!! Wozani... we are so proud Obama was elected, unity!!&nbsp; (Isn't this the same gal who blasted him during the primaries when she was a shill for Clinton?).&nbsp; This takes the cake for the most awkward part.&nbsp; She called for us to all stand in unity and chant her unity phrase &quot;Wozani.&quot;&nbsp; A&nbsp;good portion of the audience, after sitting through this entire thing, actually played along, and in the middle of their cheers get interrupted with the Obama plug, causing a few members of the audience to stand up and &quot;whoo&quot; along with her,&nbsp;as if to tell the rest of us &quot;were are all one people, homosapiens, except for the rest of you.&quot;&nbsp;</p> <p>Or the part where she uses a graduation to promote union legislation that removes right for a worker to vote for&nbsp;a union by secret ballot.&nbsp; Hell, my mom is union and is against this.&nbsp; Isn't&nbsp;a voice free from&nbsp;coercion a pretty basic principle of our society?</p> <p>The part where she criticizes the bailouts (socialization of the bank and finance markets), but then later goes on to criticize those who think what Obama is doing is wrong, and that socialisim is awesome (because, like, Finland totally does it).&nbsp; An interesting contradiction that left me scratching my head.</p> <p>Corrections/Peace officers are mostly uneducated and way overpaid (that one went over well for the officer sitting in front of me as well as the group of thirty something criminal justice majors in her audience).</p> <p>Republicans hate Latinos (oh wait, wrong speech)</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &quot;94e17d14cd566f1b37724cce65ed2d0b&quot;, event)" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6460536.html"><font color="#3b5998"><span>http://www.chron.com/disp/</span><wbr></wbr></font><span>story.mpl/ap/tx/6460536.ht</span><wbr></wbr>ml</a>&nbsp;- She talked about this for a while<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>Oh, yeah and something about the KKK... by that time things were getting near comical and the audience started to laugh.</p> <p>Somewhere along the way she forgot that people were graduating.&nbsp; I&nbsp;get what she's saying, I&nbsp;actually agree with some of it!&nbsp; It's just that her way of getting to the point was off base and downright divisive.&nbsp; Who on earth is going to chant &quot;Wozani&quot;&nbsp;and be unified&nbsp;with her by the end but the niche few that&nbsp;already agree with every single thing she said?&nbsp;I&nbsp;don't mind a little left or&nbsp;right leaning spin in a speech like this, but to&nbsp;take the audience hostage under false pretenses and use it for political grandstanding, and no forum for reproach, was just offensive in my book.&nbsp; I admit I lean to the right on&nbsp;many issues, but I also agree with her&nbsp;on certain issues, especially regarding the basic&nbsp;rights of farmworkers.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can say confidently that I&nbsp;would be equally,&nbsp;if not more disgusted if&nbsp;this&nbsp;had been someone using the platform to denounce gays, flaunt&nbsp;their pro-life views, insult&nbsp;Obama, etc.&nbsp; And why?&nbsp; Because it&nbsp;makes&nbsp;the rest of us look bad.</p> <p>I&nbsp;will go out on a limb and suggest that she did&nbsp;nothing to shape the minds of the people in that audience, and that, folks,&nbsp;isn't standing up for what you believe in, it's just stupid.&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412153 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412153 <p>Good&nbsp;Lord that was excruciating to sit through.&nbsp; It felt much longer.&nbsp; I think&nbsp;the video is only about half.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>My Favorite Parts:</p> <p>Shout for unity!!! Wozani... we are so proud Obama was elected, unity!!&nbsp; (Isn't this the same gal who blasted him during the primaries when she was a shill for Clinton?).&nbsp; This takes the cake for the most awkward part.&nbsp; She called for us to all stand in unity and chant her unity phrase &quot;Wozani.&quot;&nbsp; A&nbsp;good portion of the audience, after sitting through this entire thing, actually played along, and in the middle of their cheers get interrupted with the Obama plug, causing a few members of the audience to stand up and &quot;whoo&quot; along with her,&nbsp;as if to tell the rest of us &quot;were are all one people, homosapiens, except for the rest of you.&quot;&nbsp;</p> <p>Or the part where she uses a graduation to promote union legislation that removes right for a worker to vote for&nbsp;a union by secret ballot.&nbsp; Hell, my mom is union and is against this.&nbsp; Isn't&nbsp;a voice free from&nbsp;coercion a pretty basic principle of our society?</p> <p>The part where she criticizes the bailouts (socialization of the bank and finance markets), but then later goes on to criticize those who think what Obama is doing is wrong, and that socialisim is awesome (because, like, Finland totally does it).&nbsp; An interesting contradiction that left me scratching my head.</p> <p>Corrections/Peace officers are mostly uneducated and way overpaid (that one went over well for the officer sitting in front of me as well as the group of thirty something criminal justice majors in her audience).</p> <p>Republicans hate Latinos (oh wait, wrong speech)</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &quot;94e17d14cd566f1b37724cce65ed2d0b&quot;, event)" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6460536.html"><font color="#3b5998"><span>http://www.chron.com/disp/</span><wbr></wbr></font><span>story.mpl/ap/tx/6460536.ht</span><wbr></wbr>ml</a>&nbsp;- She talked about this for a while<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>Oh, yeah and something about the KKK... by that time things were getting near comical and the audience started to laugh.</p> <p>Somewhere along the way she forgot that people were graduating.&nbsp; I&nbsp;get what she's saying, I&nbsp;actually agree with some of it!&nbsp; It's just that her way of getting to the point was off base and downright divisive.&nbsp; Who on earth is going to chant &quot;Wozani&quot;&nbsp;and be unified&nbsp;with her by the end but the niche few that&nbsp;already agree with every single thing she said?&nbsp;I&nbsp;don't mind a little left or&nbsp;right leaning spin in a speech like this, but to&nbsp;take the audience hostage under false pretenses and use it for political grandstanding, and no forum for reproach, was just offensive in my book.&nbsp; I admit I lean to the right on&nbsp;many issues, but I also agree with her&nbsp;on certain issues, especially regarding the basic&nbsp;rights of farmworkers.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can say confidently that I&nbsp;would be equally,&nbsp;if not more disgusted if&nbsp;this&nbsp;had been someone using the platform to denounce gays, flaunt&nbsp;their pro-life views, insult&nbsp;Obama, etc.&nbsp; And why?&nbsp; Because it&nbsp;makes&nbsp;the rest of us look bad.</p> <p>I&nbsp;will go out on a limb and suggest that she did&nbsp;nothing to shape the minds of the people in that audience, and that, folks,&nbsp;isn't standing up for what you believe in, it's just stupid.&nbsp;</p> <p>The only graduation I looked forward to was when I&nbsp;graduated from undergrad.&nbsp;I didn't want to go to my high school graduation because I was embarrassed of being a summer school graduate and I was over the pomp and circumstance by the time I finished grad school.&nbsp; I was just ready to get back into a regular&nbsp;Army unit.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412156 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412156 <p>The only graduation I looked forward to was when I&nbsp;graduated from undergrad.&nbsp;I didn't want to go to my high school graduation because I was embarrassed of being a summer school graduate and I was over the pomp and circumstance by the time I finished grad school.&nbsp; I was just ready to get back into a regular&nbsp;Army unit.</p> <p>Oh, and an investment tip for you guys... if minimum wage goes to $25/hr, invest in commodities... or the Euro / Yen</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412160 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412160 <p>Oh, and an investment tip for you guys... if minimum wage goes to $25/hr, invest in commodities... or the Euro / Yen</p> <p>Graduation ceremonies aren't the place for&nbsp;politics</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Ill do you one better, ANY&nbsp;school that is ran off of ANY&nbsp;TYPE of government funds isn't a place for politics, YET.......with less than 1 percent of public universities NOT being the norm, it is the rule to be a leftist COMMIE&nbsp;tard, and to browbeat your students if their social views deviate the slightest from instruct, oh SORRY, PROFESSOR</p> <p>education is supposed to be objective, with a multitude of learning styles.&nbsp; politics makes it subjective</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412161 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412161 <p>Graduation ceremonies aren't the place for&nbsp;politics</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Ill do you one better, ANY&nbsp;school that is ran off of ANY&nbsp;TYPE of government funds isn't a place for politics, YET.......with less than 1 percent of public universities NOT being the norm, it is the rule to be a leftist COMMIE&nbsp;tard, and to browbeat your students if their social views deviate the slightest from instruct, oh SORRY, PROFESSOR</p> <p>education is supposed to be objective, with a multitude of learning styles.&nbsp; politics makes it subjective</p> <p>I couldn't even finish listening to that political diatribe.</p> <p>Nancy, you are absolutely right about what the content of a graduation speech should be.&nbsp; Here's one I wish I&nbsp;could have heard in person:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc</a>&nbsp; If you don't want to take the time to watch it, the text is <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html">here</a>.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412166 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412166 <p>I couldn't even finish listening to that political diatribe.</p> <p>Nancy, you are absolutely right about what the content of a graduation speech should be.&nbsp; Here's one I wish I&nbsp;could have heard in person:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc</a>&nbsp; If you don't want to take the time to watch it, the text is <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html">here</a>.</p> <p>&quot;Did Dolores Huerta hijack Cal State Bakersfield's graduation?&quot;&nbsp; I can answer that without putting myself through the frustration of listening. That is all she ever speaks of ( her agendas ). Nuff said...</p> <br /> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412171 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412171 <p>&quot;Did Dolores Huerta hijack Cal State Bakersfield's graduation?&quot;&nbsp; I can answer that without putting myself through the frustration of listening. That is all she ever speaks of ( her agendas ). Nuff said...</p> <br /> <p>Universities <u>are</u> a place for politics and political ideas free from government intervention, especially ones funded by the government (which is just about every university).</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412179 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412179 <p>Universities <u>are</u> a place for politics and political ideas free from government intervention, especially ones funded by the government (which is just about every university).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;I hate politics ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDM3eYp4KQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDM3eYp4KQ</a></p> <p>( sigh ) ... graduation ceremonies should be cute .</p> <p>--virgil</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412190 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412190 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;I hate politics ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDM3eYp4KQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDM3eYp4KQ</a></p> <p>( sigh ) ... graduation ceremonies should be cute .</p> <p>--virgil</p> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>friends forever !&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :&nbsp;&nbsp; )</p> <p>--virgil</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412191 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412191 <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>friends forever !&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :&nbsp;&nbsp; )</p> <p>--virgil</p> <p>free from government intervention</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>then kindly explain why close to 100 percent of the politics at any public university is leftist?&nbsp; how is that free political thinking?&nbsp; that, kind sir, is group think.</p> <p>They also prey on the students, forcing them to look at politics through their eyes for the quarter, semester, whatever.&nbsp; Then can hold for ransom, a needed grade in a class, if the student doesnt profess what the instructor wants to hear</p> <p>FREEDOM???</p> <p>hardly</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412203 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412203 <p>free from government intervention</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>then kindly explain why close to 100 percent of the politics at any public university is leftist?&nbsp; how is that free political thinking?&nbsp; that, kind sir, is group think.</p> <p>They also prey on the students, forcing them to look at politics through their eyes for the quarter, semester, whatever.&nbsp; Then can hold for ransom, a needed grade in a class, if the student doesnt profess what the instructor wants to hear</p> <p>FREEDOM???</p> <p>hardly</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;I think every graduating student should have read, at leats once, &nbsp;Walt Whitman ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yn4OjOqB2A&amp;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yn4OjOqB2A&amp;feature=related</a></p> <p>--virgil</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412208 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412208 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;I think every graduating student should have read, at leats once, &nbsp;Walt Whitman ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yn4OjOqB2A&amp;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yn4OjOqB2A&amp;feature=related</a></p> <p>--virgil</p> <p>That sir, is a broad generalization.&nbsp; Even if they are, so what?&nbsp; It's about the subject matter.&nbsp; Colleges and universities are trying to hire experts in their field.&nbsp; Don't be afraid,&nbsp;They're intellectuals, first.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even if you are a conservative, and you tell the &quot;commie&quot;&nbsp;English professor how much you love Chaucer, he'll love you as a student despite him teaming with&nbsp;the Geology and Biology&nbsp;professors in their next commie coup.&nbsp; I've had no professor more leftist than I (or one willing to admit it)</p> <p><strong>instruct, oh SORRY, PROFESSOR</strong></p> <p>Do you even know the difference (i.e. instructor vs. professor)?</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412210 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412210 <p>That sir, is a broad generalization.&nbsp; Even if they are, so what?&nbsp; It's about the subject matter.&nbsp; Colleges and universities are trying to hire experts in their field.&nbsp; Don't be afraid,&nbsp;They're intellectuals, first.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even if you are a conservative, and you tell the &quot;commie&quot;&nbsp;English professor how much you love Chaucer, he'll love you as a student despite him teaming with&nbsp;the Geology and Biology&nbsp;professors in their next commie coup.&nbsp; I've had no professor more leftist than I (or one willing to admit it)</p> <p><strong>instruct, oh SORRY, PROFESSOR</strong></p> <p>Do you even know the difference (i.e. instructor vs. professor)?</p> <p>virgil,</p> <p>I&nbsp;loved the video. As a substitute teacher, I&nbsp;felt tension rising within me when I&nbsp;saw the paper airplanes and crumpled up papers being thrown in the class.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412211 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412211 <p>virgil,</p> <p>I&nbsp;loved the video. As a substitute teacher, I&nbsp;felt tension rising within me when I&nbsp;saw the paper airplanes and crumpled up papers being thrown in the class.</p> <p>My son just recently graduated from another Calfornia State University. A&nbsp;woman, who formerly attended college at this CSU, spoke for a period of&nbsp; about fifteen minutes about political subjects that ranged from oppression in Arabic countries for women and other minorities to economic challenges the world and education face today. She commented on the struggle of the impoverished throughout the world and challenged the student body to also continue their education, and to work to make a difference.</p> <p>This speech from Dolores Huerta rambled over a number of points, but certainly did not hijack the proceedings. I am surprised that such a strong advocate of human rights and the co-founder of the UFW gets such little respect from the general community here. The woman is 79 years old, and deserves some respect.</p> <p>I am not sure why asking students to read important news sources such as the <strong>New York Times</strong>, <strong>The Atlantic Monthly</strong>, <strong>The Nation</strong>,<strong> Mother Jones</strong> and <strong>The Progressive</strong> while not using Rush Limbaugh as a news source would be disturbing to anyone. Rush doesn't get or give the news, he just opines with a very tilted perspective on news stories he finds provocative. That is not a news source, that is an opinion source.&nbsp;</p> <p>Also, I fail to understand why people are so hostile towards unions and what they provide for working people. Almost 36% of the&nbsp; private&nbsp; sector workforce in the 1950s were union members. The percentage today in the private sector is around 8% today. Maybe the reason everyone works for apittance out in the private sector today (excluding our crack top management teams in all those bustling industries the tax payer subsidizes everyday) is that unions have been wiped out through a non-stop attacks on labor and wages, the outsourcing of all manufacturing and reduction of skilled labor to drone work in most of our industries today. If you want to continue living on the bottom and learning to like it continue to attack collective bargaining and all that it represents in the forms of benefits, work week hours, disability insurance, social security and workman's compensation. </p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412219 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412219 <p>My son just recently graduated from another Calfornia State University. A&nbsp;woman, who formerly attended college at this CSU, spoke for a period of&nbsp; about fifteen minutes about political subjects that ranged from oppression in Arabic countries for women and other minorities to economic challenges the world and education face today. She commented on the struggle of the impoverished throughout the world and challenged the student body to also continue their education, and to work to make a difference.</p> <p>This speech from Dolores Huerta rambled over a number of points, but certainly did not hijack the proceedings. I am surprised that such a strong advocate of human rights and the co-founder of the UFW gets such little respect from the general community here. The woman is 79 years old, and deserves some respect.</p> <p>I am not sure why asking students to read important news sources such as the <strong>New York Times</strong>, <strong>The Atlantic Monthly</strong>, <strong>The Nation</strong>,<strong> Mother Jones</strong> and <strong>The Progressive</strong> while not using Rush Limbaugh as a news source would be disturbing to anyone. Rush doesn't get or give the news, he just opines with a very tilted perspective on news stories he finds provocative. That is not a news source, that is an opinion source.&nbsp;</p> <p>Also, I fail to understand why people are so hostile towards unions and what they provide for working people. Almost 36% of the&nbsp; private&nbsp; sector workforce in the 1950s were union members. The percentage today in the private sector is around 8% today. Maybe the reason everyone works for apittance out in the private sector today (excluding our crack top management teams in all those bustling industries the tax payer subsidizes everyday) is that unions have been wiped out through a non-stop attacks on labor and wages, the outsourcing of all manufacturing and reduction of skilled labor to drone work in most of our industries today. If you want to continue living on the bottom and learning to like it continue to attack collective bargaining and all that it represents in the forms of benefits, work week hours, disability insurance, social security and workman's compensation. </p> <p>I just have one question. If graduation speaches aren't the places for politics, why do so many universities invite political figures to give the speaches?</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412228 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412228 <p>I just have one question. If graduation speaches aren't the places for politics, why do so many universities invite political figures to give the speaches?</p> <p>Maybe because Bill Cosby is all booked up.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412233 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412233 <p>Maybe because Bill Cosby is all booked up.</p> <p>Universities will usually ask the student body or a student committee for names or a selection from a list of people to speak at the graduation.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412235 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412235 <p>Universities will usually ask the student body or a student committee for names or a selection from a list of people to speak at the graduation.</p> <p>For a small liberal arts school, my alma mater has had some fairly recognizable names speak at commencement, especially in the last five years:</p> <p>&nbsp; (<a href="http://www.knox.edu/x12330.xml">complete list here</a>)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>2009</strong></p> <ul> <li><em><img height="90" width="90" style="margin: 0px 10px; float: right;" src="http://www.knox.edu/Images/_About/pfitz90.jpg" alt="Patrick J. Fitzgerald" />Patrick J. Fitzgerald</em>, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2008</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degree-albright-.jpg" alt="Madeleine Albright" /></div> <em>Madeleine Albright</em>, former U.S. Secretary of State</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2007</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degrees-clinton.jpg" alt="Bill Clinton" /></div> <em>William Jefferson Clinton</em>, 42nd President of the United States, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2006</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degrees-colbert.jpg" alt="Stephen Colbert" /></div> <em>Stephen Colbert</em>, political satirist and star of <em>The Colbert Report</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2005</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degrees-obama.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" /></div> <em>Barack Obama</em>, U.S. Senator from Illinois</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412260 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412260 <p>For a small liberal arts school, my alma mater has had some fairly recognizable names speak at commencement, especially in the last five years:</p> <p>&nbsp; (<a href="http://www.knox.edu/x12330.xml">complete list here</a>)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>2009</strong></p> <ul> <li><em><img height="90" width="90" style="margin: 0px 10px; float: right;" src="http://www.knox.edu/Images/_About/pfitz90.jpg" alt="Patrick J. Fitzgerald" />Patrick J. Fitzgerald</em>, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2008</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degree-albright-.jpg" alt="Madeleine Albright" /></div> <em>Madeleine Albright</em>, former U.S. Secretary of State</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2007</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degrees-clinton.jpg" alt="Bill Clinton" /></div> <em>William Jefferson Clinton</em>, 42nd President of the United States, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2006</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degrees-colbert.jpg" alt="Stephen Colbert" /></div> <em>Stephen Colbert</em>, political satirist and star of <em>The Colbert Report</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.knox.edu/News-Sports-and-Events/News-Archive/May-2009/Knox-College-Commencement-Speakers-2005-Present.html"><strong>2005</strong></a></p> <ul> <li> <div style="float: right;"><img hspace="10" border="0" style="width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.knox.edu/images/_About/History/hon-degrees-obama.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" /></div> <em>Barack Obama</em>, U.S. Senator from Illinois</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>If a person can get a scholarship to a school like Knox, big kudos. Not many earning a median salary in these parts of $30k a year is going to be able to spend nearly $40k per year on the tuition. Congrats to you on having attended such a prestigious school.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412263 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412263 <p>If a person can get a scholarship to a school like Knox, big kudos. Not many earning a median salary in these parts of $30k a year is going to be able to spend nearly $40k per year on the tuition. Congrats to you on having attended such a prestigious school.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Ouch!&nbsp; Is that what it costs now?&nbsp; It wasn't anywhere near that expensive when I&nbsp;went there centuries ago, adam, but I suppose it was still expensive for it's time.&nbsp; That aside, I&nbsp;think I got a pretty good education there. . . . and found a husband.&nbsp; ;-)</p> <br /> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412269 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412269 <p>Ouch!&nbsp; Is that what it costs now?&nbsp; It wasn't anywhere near that expensive when I&nbsp;went there centuries ago, adam, but I suppose it was still expensive for it's time.&nbsp; That aside, I&nbsp;think I got a pretty good education there. . . . and found a husband.&nbsp; ;-)</p> <br /> <p>Actually, the ColorNine the tuition is a little above $30k and the other living expenses at the college (room and board) push the figure to $40k per year. I should have written in my post above the cost of going to school there for a year. My bad.</p> <p>The costs have also skyrocketed at my old alma mater, UC Berkeley. It costs more than ten times today than what I paid when I attended. That is cruel and unusual punishment for bright kids and their families. So many today start out in such a big hole financially after going to college that people start to question the value of even attending. And so many degrees are not any guarantee of getting work upon completion.&nbsp; Welcome to the debtor nation reality boys and girls. It's not how much you are worth it is how much you owe.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412309 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412309 <p>Actually, the ColorNine the tuition is a little above $30k and the other living expenses at the college (room and board) push the figure to $40k per year. I should have written in my post above the cost of going to school there for a year. My bad.</p> <p>The costs have also skyrocketed at my old alma mater, UC Berkeley. It costs more than ten times today than what I paid when I attended. That is cruel and unusual punishment for bright kids and their families. So many today start out in such a big hole financially after going to college that people start to question the value of even attending. And so many degrees are not any guarantee of getting work upon completion.&nbsp; Welcome to the debtor nation reality boys and girls. It's not how much you are worth it is how much you owe.</p> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>$40 grand a year .... Did you get a chance to&nbsp;read Walt Whitman?</p> <p>--virgil</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412315 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/politicsanyone/46129/#c_412315 <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>$40 grand a year .... Did you get a chance to&nbsp;read Walt Whitman?</p> <p>--virgil</p>