FROM THE DESK OF ANDREW JONES, B.A. '03

President, Bruin Alumni Association

Dear Friend,

     If you had the opportunity to save a major American university from political radicals, would you take it?

     Today, if you make a generous gift of $250 - or even $100 or $50 - you can help the Bruin Alumni Association do just that at UCLA.

     The stakes, and the need for your help on our campus, has never been higher.  Consider that in just one recent year on the UCLA campus:

     - Conservative students were assaulted and their property destroyed - just for trying to engage the participants of a campus anti-war march in a debate on the facts...a debate which you and I might think is the very essence of the college experience.

     - Radical students, billing themselves variously as the "Student Worker Front," and the "Social Justice Alliance," ran the popular Taco Bell off campus as part of a radical national labor campaign.  Its goal was strong-arming Taco Bell into forcing its Florida tomato suppliers to pay its pickers higher wages.  The removal meant an $85,000 annual revenue loss for ASUCLA - and came about despite the activists' admission that rarely, if ever, are Florida tomatoes sent to California Taco Bell locations.

     - The Executive Director of the Southern California ACLU was hired to teach a political science class.  When students in the class objected to the biased readings, guest speakers, and classroom atmosphere, the department chair airily dismissed the concerns, remarking, "a professor in a classroom will say things to be provocative, to get students worked up."     

     All of this sounds bad enough in the retelling.  But it's UCLA students (as I was before my 2003 graduation) who are actually living in this intolerant liberal environment.  

     The Bruin Alumni Association has a simple yet comprehensive three-part plan to rescue these students: document, publicize, and publicly advocate against all forms of campus radicalism. 

     In plain English, that means we'll be pursuing multiple investigations - of the multi-culti studies majors which make an academic mockery of UCLA; of spreading campus anti-Semitism; of biased teaching topics, methods, and classroom behavior; and of the dozens of other problems which plague UCLA.  Once we've assembled full documentation, we'll take our case to the alumni and the public, and in turn, ask their help in supporting our reasonable campaign for reform.

     This plan is the product of my experiences both as an undergraduate activist and as a hopeful new alum.  As a senior, I was chairman of the UCLA Bruin Republicans, and introduced the world to the Affirmative Action Bake Sale, holding the first one in the country on February 3, 2003.  And as a new graduate, I watched hopefully for some sign that the vicious political liberalism permeating UCLA might clear on its own.  But the situation became worse, not better. 

     In response, I founded the Bruin Alumni Association, an IRS-recognized nonprofit organization.  We've already succeeded in getting the word out about an unholy alliance between anti-war professors, radical Muslim students, and our pliant administration.  Working together, they've made UCLA a major organizing center for opposition to the War on Terror.  But our work is just beginning.

     Now at this point, despite being concerned about everything you've just learned, you're still wondering why you should care about UCLA.  You've got your own alma mater to worry about, right?

     Before you rule out donating to the BAA, remember that, as UCLA goes, so goes Los Angeles, and in many ways, California and the nation.  Because UCLA educates so many of our nation's next generation of leaders and decision-makers, we can't afford to let them be force-fed a one-sided education - which is exactly what is happening right now.  And just as important to consider is that, while the BAA's model is simple enough to be reproduced at any school, we can't reach more campuses - including your alma mater - until we prove that the BAA model works at UCLA.

     We desperately need to raise $40,000 in the next month in order to fund our next year of operations.  Your generous donation of $250, $100 or $50 - or more, if you can spare it - will influence the next decade of UCLA operations.

     Will we consign UCLA to a future of violence, intimidation, petty racial grievances and political radicalism - or will we return UCLA to its original mission of teaching our young people to think for themselves?  Your donation today is a vote for common sense, and a much-needed 'no' vote against campus radicalism.

     Thank you again for your consideration, and please, don't hesitate to write, call, or visit our website if you have any more questions about the BAA.

     Best Regards,

     Andrew Jones

     President, Bruin Alumni Association

     P.S.  All donations to the BAA are fully tax-deductible and completely confidential.  From this page, simply click on the "Make a Donation" link - you can give via credit card and you don't even have to be a PayPal member.  Please donate today!