Students Give Props To Cal State Fullerton's Rapping President

FULLERTON, CA - It's official. For those in the know, the president of Cal State Fullerton is now a rap star. This week, the Titans campus posted a YouTube video of CSUF President Framroze Virjee in a head-bobbing, dancing and rapping performance extolling the virtues of the school.

"Titans Lead Higher, CSUF President FramRap,'' is a two minute video showing Virjee joining in a rap performance with Rachel Herzog, who graduated from the university this year.

Virjee, dressed in numerous CSUF-branded outfits, dances, waves his arms and bobs to the musical beat as he raps about "sustainability from our campus to our beaches'' and other phrases -- like "we lead the nation'' and "we're not tired, we're on fire'' -- extolling the benefits of the 40,000-student school.

The video posted Thursday shows numerous scenes of campus life,sports, academic activities and graduations at CSUF, which has the greatest number of students of any of the 23-campus California State University system.

Virjee, called "Fram'' on campus, came to the school's presidency after first joining the CSU as the system's top attorney at the chancellor's headquarters in Long Beach.

He took that top attorney post in 2014 after almost 30 years at the oldest law firm in Los Angeles, O'Melveny & Myers, where he specialized in labor and employment law.

The rapping president video immediately drew raves from students andcampus workers.

"Coolest president ever,'' one viewer wrote in the YouTube commentssection. "A true Rockstar!''

Another wrote "'I love you,'' and a CSUF employee said, "Another reason why I love working here.''

An apparent longtime friend noted Virjee had "won our high school talent show with his dance rendition of `Saturday Night Fever.'''

The video, which had been viewed by 1,380 people as of noontime Friday, shows Virjee and Herzog rapping, "Reach higher, reach higher, reach higher.''

City News Service, with Patch Editor Ashley Ludwig