As a current student at UCLA I've found that most of the professors are left-leaning and do indeed every now and then tell a Bush joke or make a reference to politics. But you know what? That's to be expected. Hell, in high school during senior year they teach you in AP Econ that people who go to college become more left-leaning, and that a better education correlates to becoming more liberal. I expected there to be more liberalism at UCLA, and I was right.
As a liberal on social issues and conservative on economic issues, I think it's important to get information from both political sides, but I don't think the appropriate way to do that is to go about slandering the other. I realize that being a Bush supporter and attending a class where the teacher jabs at the President may be demoralizing, but isn't part of the college experience to learn how to cope with people who don't believe in the same thing as you do? Granted you shouldn't bring in too much politics into a classroom where it doesn't belong (like CS), but I think it's important for the professor to be able to say what they feel. Even if you disagree it at least gives him or her more personallity and they become more interesting.
Note that this was not a "best of" competition, but a walk-on competition for anyone. If you go here: www.mlgpro.com/news/MLG_Chicago%253A__The_Battle_o f_the_Masses/1.html you'll see that he's playing against another kid who looks to be around 12 years old. So while I'm sure he's damn good, think of all the nooblets that entered the tournament.
Also, it seems that there was another "VS" guy in his group that got in the top 10 for FFA. I wonder if they had some kind of unspoken pact as they played FFA...it seems that if you were in an FFA with a teammate, sure you'd kill them to get ahead, but perhaps you'd decide not to chase after them if you could go for someone else. Just a thought...
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As a current student at UCLA I've found that most of the professors are left-leaning and do indeed every now and then tell a Bush joke or make a reference to politics. But you know what? That's to be expected. Hell, in high school during senior year they teach you in AP Econ that people who go to college become more left-leaning, and that a better education correlates to becoming more liberal. I expected there to be more liberalism at UCLA, and I was right. As a liberal on social issues and conservative on economic issues, I think it's important to get information from both political sides, but I don't think the appropriate way to do that is to go about slandering the other. I realize that being a Bush supporter and attending a class where the teacher jabs at the President may be demoralizing, but isn't part of the college experience to learn how to cope with people who don't believe in the same thing as you do? Granted you shouldn't bring in too much politics into a classroom where it doesn't belong (like CS), but I think it's important for the professor to be able to say what they feel. Even if you disagree it at least gives him or her more personallity and they become more interesting.
Note that this was not a "best of" competition, but a walk-on competition for anyone. If you go here: www.mlgpro.com/news/MLG_Chicago%253A__The_Battle_o f_the_Masses/1.html you'll see that he's playing against another kid who looks to be around 12 years old. So while I'm sure he's damn good, think of all the nooblets that entered the tournament.
Also, it seems that there was another "VS" guy in his group that got in the top 10 for FFA. I wonder if they had some kind of unspoken pact as they played FFA...it seems that if you were in an FFA with a teammate, sure you'd kill them to get ahead, but perhaps you'd decide not to chase after them if you could go for someone else. Just a thought...