Audit of u. C. Revealed 175 million in hidden funds. We talked with republican state assemblywoman catherine baker, vice chair of the Higher Education committee, one of three committees that held the joint hearing on the audits findings. Kqed senior politics editor, scott schaefer, has more. Senator baker, thanks for coming in. Scott, good to be here. Lets talk about the audit. Janet napolitano was on the hot seat in sacramento this week. What troubles you the most about the audit, the findings, and how she responded to it . Sure. The audit had many troubling findings. First was the undisclosed offbudget funds that was not disclosed to the region, either the spending or its existence. And that that fund was being amassed or built up within the office of the president at the tame time they were asking for tuition increases from students taking campus assessments away. Dollars that could have been spent on our california students. That was very troubling. The good news is, theyve agreed
Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz in her book red dirt which is a memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the
Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz in her book red dirt which is a memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the
Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz in her book red dirt which is a memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the
Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz in her book red dirt which is a memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the