UCLA: Something's a ' Bruin

On Friday, my last full day of being an ISI missionary to the Left coast, I spent about four hours (yes 4) of my day at UCLA. What a nice campus, and what a location. It's in an area of L.A. called "Westwood", and literally just a mile or so from Beverly Hills. The campus is beautiful (yet somewhat modern, but still very nice) and the area just surrounding it is very nice, with million dollar homes everywhere (probably plenty of multi-million dollar homes too).

I had 3 separate meetings with individual conservative students and even an alumni or 2, actually. One student runs the CN paper there, "The Bruin Standard." Another is an assistant editor and also is one of the leaders of the College Republicans. One was involved with both groups (who I've met before), but he is working in Governor Schwarzennager's (sp?) office in L.A. (the L.A. office of course)

Then I met with Andrew Jones, who graduated from UCLA in 2003 and was involved with ISI and CN in all kinds of ways. He is now working to build the Bruin Alumni Association. Check it out for yourself.

Andrew is trying to raise awareness among UCLA alumni (particularly among conservative alumni) about the crazy Leftist ideologies that are plaguing the UCLA campus (and most college campuses). But his focus is of course on his own school and that is what's key. The tough part is funding it and starting it up. But I think if he stays persistent (and seems persistent) that ultimately it will succeed as an organization and potentilaly it could have a huge impact on UCLA and on connecting the alumni (and donors) to what is currently going on on-campus. And, activating those alumni to use any power they have (their voice, their money, etc) to help make an impact back onto UCLA and help bring some sanity back to the university.

Best of luck Andrew... full speed ahead!