ASA 002
Blog Post #4
In the article “A tale of Two Campuses,” the author Alan
Markow wrote about how two Universities
responded to the Occupy Movement. The two Markow mentioned were the UC Berkeley
and UC Davis campuses. Of the two Universities, Berkeley had its share of
activist days where people conducted their protest within the campus. In the
film Aoki, there were scenes of protest happening inside the campus and eventually
taking over a building. Due to the history and media exposure Berkeley have had
in the past dealing with protestors, the University learned how to handle
current and future protestors without any kind of violence. According to the
article Berkeley was able to come to a resolution to the increase in tuition of
the middle class, where the University will implement a maximum out of pocket
cost of 15% for middle class families. This is a complete 180 degrees compared
to the response to what UC Davis had. In the response from UC Davis, there were
no mentions of a resolution that was taking place or any kind of positive
remark, only negative ones. The response from Davis only mentioned what the
students cost the university to repair the campus and seems to place a lot of
emphasis on that. I feel like because UC Davis does not have a history of
dealing with protestors therefore it did not know how to respond to the occupy
movement. Although not having a history does not justify to ignoring the issue
and focusing on blaming the students for the cost of protesting what they
believe in.
Question: Do you think if Davis had a richer history of
protests, the media response in the article would have been a lot better in
terms of commenting on a possible resolution instead of focusing cost of
repairs?
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