Education Law
Apr. 12, 2022
In the spirit of amends: An argument to change from one Hastings to another
The lone senator who did not vote to advance the bill was Brian Dahle (R-Bieber), who has many Native American constituents in the 1st Senate District. He expressed frustration with the lack of time allowed for witnesses opposing the bill to speak, when the senators who are sponsoring the bill “get to talk as long as they want.”
The April 6 hearing on SB 1288 before the state Senate Education Committee highlighted the political nature of the effort to change the name of UC-Hastings College of the Law; whose affairs, according to the California Constitution, are supposed to “be entirely independent of all political or sectarian influences and kept free therefrom…” Cal. Const., Art. IX, §9 (a), (f).
The three senators who sponsor the bill started off by each address...
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