It was U.C. president Richard Atkinson, by the way, whose threat to drop the SAT led to the recent gutting of that test. Now that he has undermined merit-based testing in an attempt to circumvent the elimination of affirmative action by California’s voters, Atkinson is out to make our universities safe for political propaganda. This is a smoking gun admission that modern higher education has become a tool of political indoctrination. Fortunately, there is something you can do about it. Scroll down to the bottom of this post and you will find three e-mail addresses where you can register a protest. I hope the story of this outrage rings throughout the blogosphere.