Well, that says it all and rather sadly. UC Berkeley has surrendered whatever last attachment it had to the people in favor of fealty to the corporate state. No trace remains of the idea that knowledge or wisdom are the proper study of mankind.
Information is king.
The concepts of professional recognition and dignity give way to the profit motive as UC Berkeley strives to suck up to its corporate donors. It was something that I, now a senior in my last semester, had desperately hoped to read for the last three years. I am glad that, a few weeks before I say goodbye to Berkeley, I got the chance to read this. Although it might sound strange, I wept when I read the column. Thanks for a hearkening back to the 1960s and a critical spirit that is one of the most important pieces of our heritage, and whose fleeting memory is in danger of being lost.