Eric
I taught these folks every day at a more liberal campus than Berkley (but a job is a job) It was kind of amusing to me, and probably you, to note that I was the the "neo-facist, rightwing extremist racist prof". This despite the fact I was dating a black English lit prof at the time very publically, but that didn't count apparently. Hell, everyone here knows how right wing I am

and the students figured it out. I repeatedly asked for a a few thousand dollars for shock collars for my Intro to American Gov't 101 in budget meetings (No BS I actually did make the request in my budget forms for Tri-tronics collars at $300 a pop, just to get my department head's attention. I got it and she was not amused, though I and a couple of my fellow junior profs sure as hell were.

), but I was denied. Finally, I settled for asking for $5 to buy a 2x4 from Lowes (plus $1 for cutting to size). This was also denied. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, and you can't beat the "poop" out of it till it sees sense (for being too stupid to live), because the lawyers get all pissy. Its hard to be a prof sometimes, because with some students you can't teach until you "get their attention" first (plus 10 to anyone who remembers that joke).
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