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UC Students protest disrupts UC regents meeting in Sacramento

Submitted by Tjadendevries on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 3:51pm

Student protest disrupts UC regents meeting in Sacramento

    University of California students disrupted a meeting of the UC regents in Sacramento this morning, protesting tuition increases in a sustained chant that forced regents to break early for a closed session meeting.

    The regents were about to discuss the impact of Gov. Jerry Brown's May budget revision on the university system when about 18 students dressed in orange prison garb and complaining they were "sentenced to debt" began marching in a circle in the audience.

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    "The UC regents are closer to Wall Street than they are to the people of California," UC Berkeley student Charlie Eaton said.

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    The UC system last year raised tuition by about 18 percent over the previous year, and administrators are considering further increases. Brown's May budget revision, released Monday, did not include an additional $125 million for the college system that administrators said they need to avert a potential 6 percent tuition hike.

    The crowd included students from UC Davis, where last year's pepper-spraying incident still resonates.

    Students in the audience hissed when Nathan Brostrom, a UC vice president, said administrators have "full, unequivocal confidence" in UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi.

    A member of the audience yelled, "Is that a joke?"

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Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/05/video-student-protest-disrupts-uc-regents-meeting-in-sacramento.html#storylink=cpy