Section 2
ASA 2
Week 4
The comparisons made by Alan Markow in A Tale of Two Campuses are direct indicators of where both universities stand in terms of students' influence.
In class, we had previously spoken of UC Davis not being the quiet town that everyone thinks we are. We established that on the first day of lecture with the Pepper Spray video.
I continue to think that it is the age of our university that makes the media see us in this light. The metaphor that seems most accurate is the toddler versus teenager.
UC Berkeley is the teenager. It has valid reasons for their actions and sometimes they might even be able to reason with the adult. However, UC Davis is the toddler. We are still young as a university and even though that doesn't change the age of the students at both campuses, we are seen as naive. We throw tantrums. We get mad over silly things and attempt to copy our older siblings.
Personally, I think this article could have been about any issue. The students could have been fighting off budget cuts, or laying off professors and hiring more lecturers, etc. What matters most is what the media focused on.
It is justifiable that UC Davis is not used to their students being so destructive. That could be the reason that they focused on them ruining the beautiful Dutton Hall.
Question:
I'm curious to know how the other campuses and their media responded to this Mcap. Did other campuses lash out more than Davis? What did their news have to say about that?
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