ASA 002-A02
Reading Reflection Blog Entry #4
Response to "A Tale of Two Campuses"
This article, by Alan Markow, was the most stand-out article to me because of the incredible controversy that lies within it. The way that UC Berkeley dealt with the situation of the Occupy Movement by using MCap (Middle Class access plan) to both solve a problem and publicize their already scheduled financial plan was the ideal way that people expected the UC administration to respond. However, UC Davis simply kicked out and waited out the leaving of the protesters and complained about the price they had to pay for clean up of the campus from the Occupy Movement. By not even acknowledging that they were going to even reach a compromise or explain their also already scheduled implementation of the MCap, they only further angered students and protesters.
I found this huge difference to be absolutely ridiculous. If the MCap was already scheduled to be implemented into the entire UC system, why didn't UCD administration simply use the Occupy movement to publicize the plan as UCB did? There may be other reasons, but from this article alone, UCD administrators seem to be thinking illogically. I can only hope that future protests don't garner the same results at UCD and other UC campuses.
Question: If the UCs are supposed to be one large public education system, why do they deal with so many situations and topics differently?
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