KUCI Subversity: UCI's Disorientation Week

Irvine -- As incoming UC Irvine students converged on campus the week starting 21 September 2009 as part of Orientation Week, they encountered a UCI in turmoil Not only will their fees increase, UCI's faculty and staff are undergoing paycuts, furloughs and in some cases layoffs. Opposing the increasing privatization of the university are local activist groups out in force. And on Thursday, faculty have planned walkouts and teach-ins, while the UPTE union has planned a strike. UCI's Radical Student Union has premiered a historic first, UCI's Disorientation Guide, aimed at uncovering what is not widely known about the institution, and seeking to provoke students and other readers into action. In the show's first half hour, we talked with John Bruning and Tim Brown, members of the Disorientation Guide collective, about why they put out this first Disorientation Guide. In our second hour, we talked with Michael Moore, a union leader from UPTE, which will be on strike on September 24 university-wide, to call attention to the misplaced priorities of the current central administration, where administrative salaries have headed skyward even as the university claims it is in a budget crisis. Interviewer is Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang.