I have to say the best way to probably get the administration of UCI to pay actual attention is to hit the wallet and the PR Front. While the Saudi money will help offset some problems, having a very public, very negative campaign with former alumni worked hard to talk people OUT of attending their own school is going to be a much bigger problem for them to overcome. Less students, less money. More bad press, less students, less money. More Saudi money, you stop looking like a US Public School and more like something from Pakistan.
So pile on the bad press. If the UCI admin types don’t like it, then they are going to have to come out and defend it which plays right into the good guys side.
I will use the term “good guys” because they are the ones standing up for freedom of expression, right to protest, and the rather important idea that colleges should be a place where ALL sides of an argument can be heard without fear. I can’t stand the extremist viewpoints that so many groups put out, but I will (and have) fight for their right to talk about them.
And of course the right of another group to tell them they are full of it.
