The California Review

Tuesday night, I met with four students from UCSD, all are involved with several conservative student groups, including the College Republicans and the conservative student newspaper that is on the Collegiate Network – The California Review. It’s a good paper, but I advised the students they need to get more campus focused, in other words, write more articles related to the campus rather than simply national news.

UCSD is an interesting school. As I mentioned in my last blog, it’s just a few minutes from the beach and it’s a growing school. It’s pretty modern, established sometime in the 1950s or 60s. It reminded me of UCF about 10 years ago, or even something closer to FAU a couple years ago. It’s a big state school in a big state with bigger state schools.

The students are working on bringing Dinesh D’Souza to campus in the next month or so. ISI is going to help co-sponsor it, but the students here have an ambitious plan. Since D’Souza lives in the San Diego area, he plans to spend 2 days on the campus. One day will be giving a lecture and possibly a debate on one of the 2 days… and then another day the students want him to meet with administrators, professors and maybe even sit in on some classes to engage with these classes more intellectually. D’Souza is a big critic of today’s university atmosphere and curriculum which preaches the ideologies of “multiculturalism”, “diversity” and “relativism” and I would love to be sitting in those classes with him! Let’s see if they can pull it off.

After I met with these students, I re-united with my friend (and former roommate) Jimmy, who recently moved to San Diego just a couple months ago and lives right near UCSD. We caught up over a beer or two. Good times. I told him and the students I envy them… with the beautiful beaches and scenery they are able to enjoy in San Diego and La Jolla.