Dean of Students Cancels Fun in the Fountain

Allow me to be the first to say this openly, but I believe Dean Mary Spellman's days are numbered if she's going to keep killing great traditions like this one.

She killed a lot of traditions at Sarah Lawrence. Are we at all surprised that she would do the same thing here? I'm not. In fact, and this is purely speculation, I think it may be the reason she was brought here in the first place.

Happy Birthday, Coca-Cola!

I'm fighting my addition to Coke ... Coca-Cola that is.

A lame joke, I admit, but a great American company the likes of which we haven't seen in generations.

Of course I had to defend that great company from being thrown out of Pomona by Killer Coke, an activist group that cares little about excellence in soft drink manufactures.

My Big Government Piece on Cesar Chavez

I have written a piece about Cesar Chavez over at Big Government. I make the case that Cesar Chavez is something of a myth and that we should not celebrate a national Cesar Chavez day. Please let me know what you think. Here's a brief extract:

Truth: Chavez didn’t even end up helping United Farm Workers of California (UFWOC) workers. Although he himself did not use violence, he looked the other way when his supporters roughed up the illegal immigrants the growers brought in. Chavez even condoned the deportation of people who refused to unionize. (For more on this, see Steve Sailer’s excellent article in The American Conservative.)

In the end, he robbed the laborers of wages – you don’t get paid when you are striking all the time – that helped drive small growers out of business and forcing them to sell to larger agribusinesses, which led almost inexorably to the mechanization of the fruit industry.

Chavez, as a union boss, faced the classic union dilemma: how do I drive up wages quickly but guarantee that the labor you claim to represent won’t be replaced?

Chavez never came up with a good answer to this dilemma. Instead he demanded that everyone in Great Central Valley in California be unionized. When the growers didn’t like this deal, they found alternatives around it.