Karl Rove visited UC Merced recently, at the invitation of the campus Republicans. It is hard enough to imagine a UC student as completely subsidized as these are by the faded ideals of a once proud, rich and generous state being so ignorant and stupid that they would make such an idiotic invitation. But, on the other hand, UC is no longer, strictly speaking, that great product of those great, faded ideals, which last saw the light of day when Jerry Brown's father was governor. Today, UC has been absorbed by corporations.