"Yet there seems to be no problem in being hypocritical enough to support it by going to UC schools"

"Get off your high horse! You are part of the problem."

"If these students are really against war they wouldn't be going to a UC school in the first place."

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You seem to have a lot of anti-student sentiment. Why is that?

It's not hypocritical at all to attend a UC while organizing against the injustices it perpetuates. The UCs are the best schools in CA that are somewhat available to the public. There are virtually no alternatives if our youth wish to attend an excellent school.

Furthermore, UC is not alone in it's collusion with the Department of Defense and militarization - many schools nation-wide are a part of what some have called the Military-Academic-Industrial-Complex.

Are you critical of the more than 1,000 UCSC students that shut down the campus for a day to support AFSCME workers? We eventually helped them to win a better contract. Was that hypocritical of us?

What you would rather us do? We do the best we can to change the system - inside and out - so who are you to criticize us?

I find it odd that you call yourself a native santa cruzan yet despise UCSC and the students so much. If it weren't for our involvement, Santa Cruz's economy would be bust and our politics conservative as they used to be prior to UCSC.

Luckily, I grew up in Santa Cruz and know that your opinions do not represent most locals.