ASA02 Section A01
Week 4
In this week's readings, A Tale of Two Campuses UCD & UCB occupy by Alan Markow is the one interests me and made me feel most related. In this article, the difference in handling students' protest and public concerns is pretty obvious. To my understanding, students participating in social movement and the democratic process has been a long lasting tradition since the civil right movement, which explains why the administrators in Berkeley behave more reasonable to students' urges. However, it is no excuse for UC Davis administrators to ignores students' urges, by which, sadly, they still do. After reading this article, I do relate to these protesting students as I am an international student myself. But I am kind of jealous as well, about their freedom to speak up for their right. In the last spring quarter, a similar incident occurred to me as well. At that time, the tuition for international students was increased from 10% to 15%, which was already three-times of the tuition for local students. And when making such a decision, no international student was consulted nor notified. The several thousand dollars extra bills just appeared on the statement with no explanation. There was indeed some protest and collective petition urging the university to explain its decision. And the result is very "UC Davis", which means no response with useful information. Ironically, the way UC Davis treat this event is really close to how the Chinese government will do-blocking the information until no one remembers.
Reference
Markow, A., & Markow, A. (2011, December 22). A Tale of Two Campuses: Berkeley and Davis respond to Occupy movements. Retrieved from https://ivn.us/2011/12/19/a-tale-of-two-campuses-berkeley-and-davis-respond-to-occupy-movements/
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