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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Sunil,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I didn’t take time to check out each & every CSU campus, but I checked enough to know that there <b>aren’t</b> seven or eight campuses that don’t offer US History. For anyone else interested, you can access each campus from the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.calstate.edu/">http://www.calstate.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here’s more about the UC facts:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/04/02/456547/santorum-uc-american-history/?mobile=nc">http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/04/02/456547/santorum-uc-american-history/?mobile=nc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>In fact, of the 10 UC system schools, just one (San Francisco) doesn’t offer American history courses. But that’s because it doesn’t offer <i>any</i> humanities courses at all — it’s a medical school.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Meanwhile, <a href="http://general-catalog.berkeley.edu/catalog/gcc_search_sends_request"><span style='color:#333333'>Berkeley</span></a>, <a href="http://www.editor.uci.edu/catalogue/hum/hum.14.htm"><span style='color:#333333'>Irvine</span></a>, <a href="http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog/PDF/07GenCatUgradEdu.pdf"><span style='color:#333333'>Davis</span></a>, <a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog11-12-400.htm#445416584_pgfId-1003847"><span style='color:#333333'>Los Angeles</span></a>, <a href="http://ssha.ucmerced.edu/2.asp?uc=1&lvl2=41&lvl3=41&lvl4=107&contentid=144"><span style='color:#333333'>Merced</span></a>, <a href="http://catalog.ucr.edu/scribd.html"><span style='color:#333333'>Riverside</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/courses/HIST.html"><span style='color:#333333'>San Diego</span></a>, <a href="http://my.sa.ucsb.edu/Catalog/Current/CollegesDepartments/ls-intro/hist.aspx?DeptTab=Courses"><span style='color:#333333'>Santa Barbara</span></a>, and <a href="http://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/html/undergrad_acad.html"><span style='color:#333333'>Santa Cruz</span></a> all offer numerous American history courses. All require students to take U.S. history before they can graduate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>University of California spokesperson Brooke Converse emailed to note that <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/graduation-requirements/history/index.html"><span style='color:#333333'>every single UC undergraduate program is required</span></a> to study “American history and institutions,” though specific requirements vary at each campus.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It seems to me the real question is: what exactly is it that Santorum was reading to give him such gross misinformation? Quite the hit job – no matter how inaccurate -- on California higher education, but is that surprising coming from Santorum?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The baffling thing to me is that even when the GOP/TPers get snookered by special interest groups that thrive on providing misinformation, they don’t seem to learn the lesson & keep right on sucking up the muck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saundra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sunil Ramalingam<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 02, 2012 9:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Nick,<br><br>Tim White got his doctorate at Berkeley, and didn't go to Davis.<br><br>I went to Davis and took courses on American history there. Maybe Santorum meant the Cal State system? Hmm, I went to Sac State too, and took American history courses there too. Maybe they took them off the curriculum.<br><br>Sunil<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 21:18:18 -0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>; <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<br><br>I'm sure that the entire UC system has responded to Santorum already, but I just checked the history dept. at UC Davis (that is where our illustrious former president Time White went) and they have tons of courses on American history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>"I was just reading something last night from the state of California. And that the California universities - I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught."<br><br>- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (April 2, 2012)<br><br>---------------<br><br><a href="http://sfist.com/2012/04/02/rick_santorum_claims_california_universities_are_ruining_america.php" target="_blank">http://sfist.com/2012/04/02/rick_santorum_claims_california_universities_are_ruining_america.php</a><br><br>Video<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTPft2-RWw&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTPft2-RWw&feature=player_embedded</a><br><br>--------------------------------<br><br>Some things you just can't make up.<br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"If not us, who?<br>If not now, when?"<br><br>- Unknown<br><br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> mailto:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>======================================================= List services made available by First Step Internet, serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a> =======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>