Can UC change? Supporting the tree-sit at UC Berkeley
Playing off of a recent UC Berkeley marketing campaign, two students have commenced a tree-sit on campus, pictured to the left, asking: can UC change?
The answer to one variation of that question answers the second. If you can see change, UC can change.
While I doubt it will be longer than a few days before the obsessively “moderate” voices on campus begin to toss epithets at the tree-sitters for being “ineffective,” it should be asked: does anybody really think that those who took to the trees believe that their actions alone are going to change the UC?
I doubt it. Rather than paint out the obvious, other students on campus, in the ASUC, writing for the campus paper, and participating on campus in other ways, should take this opportunity to stand by the student activists in the trees and to support their message. UC won’t change as long as its greatest dreams–that the student body will itself abandon and isolate any effort to reform the UC–remain fulfilled. [Read more →]
