Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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A just end to Napolitano, Dynes and the other non native sophists that infect the Regents.
UC for residents FIRST.
July 3, 2016 at 7:54 AM
False, California cut funds to UC during the Wilson years which where never restored so there is no obligation on their part to put California students first. Same thing happened at Michigan and Virginia. UC now receives less than 10% of their funding from the state. There was talk about 10 years ago of making several of the campuses private since it would not make much of difference anyway.
July 8, 2016 at 9:17 PM
Why? Anyone can and should apply, what has California really done for the UC-system, they no longer provide any financial support so UC owes California nothing at this point.
July 8, 2016 at 9:17 PM
Why?
July 9, 2016 at 12:14 AM
The obvious reason: CA residents can't compete nationwide.
Non natives go home... Or to Texas ...or hell... but go. You are not welcome here. Too many. Too foolish. Too entitled. Too lazy. Too liberal. Toi angry.
And, you didn't "pay for it." The tuition of out-of-state students paid for it.
July 10, 2016 at 8:02 PM
I am sorry, check your facts, the state of California no longer pays for anything in the UC systems and has not since 1990. UCB and UCLA are for all practical purposes private at this point so they can admit whoever they want. If you want to go to college than go to a cal state, oh I forgot they are not not even getting much money from the state of California any more, hell California does not even want to support the community college systems anymore.
Let me just fill you in on how California has worked since 1988, if you are very rich than you are good, you can pay to go to private school anywhere in the country so you can stay and go to a UC or go out east, if you are poor than you utterly screwed. Now you may say yes so what that is how it is in the real world, however in California there is no longer a middle class, there is only the very rich or the poor, hence the problem. To be fair this is not a left or right issue, California has somehow managed to combine the very worst aspects of the right and the left into one, an amazing feat really. You guys have had the worst of the worst, Pete Wilson, Gray Davis, Arnold (really you elected an actor!?), and now as completely insane as Arnold was you now have Jerry Brown back, how the hell did you pull that off? Thank God, that UC was good enough and considered valuable enough to the rest of the United States and the world that they see fit to fund it through federal grants, industry money, and send top students to go to it. When you vote someone like Wilson in, than do not complain when these schools will not give any preference to California residents. California turned its back on their Universities long ago so the Universities turned their backs on California.
Poor ones at that.
Fire the trustees, send the non residents home. Our kidd first. We psid for the resouces snd now a entitled foreigner pushes your kid aside snd takes his place.
Grabby foreigners go home. Entitled non residents go home. California is better off without you.
CALIFORNIA RESOURCES FOR CALIFORNIA NATIVES. OTHERS NOT WELCOME.
What resources are used? Please provide some evidence that California actually provides any substantial resources to the UC systems.
"Fire the trustees, send the non residents home. Our kidd first. We psid for the resouces snd now a entitled foreigner pushes your kid aside snd takes his place."
No you did not pay for these resources, the UC systems gets less than 10% of funding from the state of California. If you did not pay for the resources you have no right to claim you should get any kind of special treatment.
"CALIFORNIA RESOURCES FOR CALIFORNIA NATIVES. OTHERS NOT WELCOME."
What resources are provided by California? You just come across like some nutcase with a weird agenda.
Hey you arrogant dumbass it is called the University of California, that means California pays for it, owns and runs it, just like the state of Pennsylvania runs and pays for the University of Pennsylvania. Similarly you have to a resident of southern California to go to USC which uses the resources of southern California. You scientists sure are dumb.
Yeah and you're the misunderstood genius that we've all been waiting for to come rescue us. I've met your species before, your not stupid but you're not smart enough to do science so you have a chip on your shoulder and lash out. Maybe you should get together with the angry CALIFORNIA NATIVES posting guy and go bowling, the Trump steaks are on the house.
A remedial course in recognition of irony and sarcasm is recommended.
No, they take any outstanding student from any country ! USC is a private school like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton,...