Free Speech at Berkeley?

I am so old I actually remember having college professors who were openly conservative.  For you youngsters this will no doubt be nearly beyond belief but it is an indisputable fact that once there was free speech and a plethora of opinion espoused in higher education.  Somewhere along the way, probably while enterprising conservative faculty was busy embracing capitalism, the liberals got the keys to the campuses and began turning them into re-education camps for the nation.  These days American colleges are hellbent on cramming political "correctness" into our culture and care not a fig how that sits with the rest of us.

To be politically correct is to be sensitive to the needs, real or not, of all citizens with the natural exception of white males, Christians, and anybody promoting freedom.  It's a place where ISIS just needs a hug and waving the American flag is considered bigotry.  In other words, it is an insane, morally reprehensible dumbass philosophy.  Stupid people are drawn to it like flies because it allows them to "feel good" about themselves.

Well, just when you thought it impossible for PC to become any more infuriating and insipid, here is another hairball coughed up by the comrades running the University of California , Berkeley.  They have now decreed that "in an effort to make the campus more INCLUSIVE, freshman students who are admitted for the spring semester will no longer be referred to as "spring admits".  Apparently the educated dolts in charge sense that students admitted in the spring might feel that "their admission was significantly different" from other freshman and therefor may have hurt feelings.

Yes, I can see where this might be a problem as a student embarks on what is now a six to eight year trek toward a degree from a zoo like Berserkly.

What am I missing?  Is this not the same Cal Berkeley that was home to the free speech movement of the 60's?   And, perhaps even more important,  WHO GIVES A RAT'S ASS WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR COLLEGE EDUCATION?!!  Isn't that whole "finishing" thing the one to concentrate on?

We have students graduating from high school, and probably college, who can't read, write or even balance their checkbook yet the idiots running Berkeley think that this is an issue they need to tackle?  The country has unsustainable debt, a constipated congress and a complete incompetent in the White House and this is what passes for a pressing situation in higher education?!

My wife and I have started a college fund for our grandson.  There are no strings attached and he can use the money to attend any school he wishes (I may amend it to exclude Berkeley).  Right now I'm inclined to think that welding school might be a better investment for the lad and I'm damn sure the faculty would be a whole lot more entertaining and certainly more open minded.
If he's lucky, maybe he can be a spring admit.

Free speech at Berkeley?  Nah, that's so 1960's.