this is a depressing letter

UC Berkeley professor Michael O'Hare writes a letter to his incoming students. "I’m writing this to you because you are the victims of this enormous cheat (though your children will be even worse off if you don’t take charge of this ship and steer it). Your education was trashed as California fell to the bottom of US states in school spending, and the art classes, AP courses, physical education, working toilets, and teaching generally went by the board."

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[Jeff Korhan]

This indeed is a telling moment.

My son was considering UCLA until we got wind of this situation a couple of years ago. He will instead attend Ohio State, which has been deluged with applications from CA as a result of this. We also learned that President Gee's vision is to morph OSU into a UCLA of the midwest - both urban campuses, strong sports programs, extensive alumni networks, etc. Interesting and timely strategy ...

What puzzles me is the US News and World Report just ranked most of the CA schools reasonably well despite this: http://bit.ly/9CsrTm.

Although, one would naturally expect Berkeley to have easily made the the top 20, and indeed it fell short.

I hope they figure out a solution. Clearly morale is quite low.

Jeff