Track the Dirty 30 and get some fast beer money

Oh, to be a college student at UCLA. By just turning in your professor for saying something "radical," you get up to $100. I know a $100 doesn't go far these days, but you can still get a lot of beer for it, and even a movie and a pizza. The Bruin Alumni Association wants to expose instructors who are "abusive, one-sided, or off-topic" in advocating their political ideologies. The group claims it is concerned about radical professors of any ilk, but so far, it can't seem to come up with any right-wing names.

On the other hand, Bruin has published a list of the "Dirty 30," all of whom are liberal. One of its projects has been to look at the types of petitions signed by professors, and the Bruin group was oh, so shocked that some of them did not favor a federal court appointment for good old UCLA alumna Janice Rogers Brown. Oh, the disloyalty!

According to Andrew Jones, head of the Bruin group, students who have complained about "radical" professors in the past have done a bad job of documenting those claims, so Bruin will pay for tapes and notes of professors' lectures. UCLA students who sell course materials without the consent of their instructors are in violation of university rules and raise issues of copyright, so the Bruin group is likely to run into trouble early on.