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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudents protesting UC tuition hikes shut down regents meeting
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Students-protesting-UC-tuition-hikes-shut-down-6142686.phpDozens of University of California students protesting tuition hikes briefly shut down the regents meeting in San Francisco Wednesday, removing their shirts and throwing fake money to make their point.
UC Regents! Put people over profits! they yelled until UC police in riot gear lined up between the students in the audience and the regents, who left the auditorium at UCs Mission Bay campus as the students stood on chairs and grew more raucous.
The students beef on Wednesday was not just about the tuition hike of up to 5 percent expected next fall and set to rise up to 28 percent over five years. Although UC officials said they had expected hundreds of student protesters to arrive especially from UC Santa Cruz, where protesters have been especially active in recent months only a few dozen showed up.
Students spoke just as passionately about a new campus in Richmond being planned by UC Berkeley. Students and community members alike urged the regents to make sure that UC signs a community benefit agreement with Richmond to ensure that residents benefit from jobs and any new housing that results from the campus that is still years away.
UC Regents! Put people over profits! they yelled until UC police in riot gear lined up between the students in the audience and the regents, who left the auditorium at UCs Mission Bay campus as the students stood on chairs and grew more raucous.
The students beef on Wednesday was not just about the tuition hike of up to 5 percent expected next fall and set to rise up to 28 percent over five years. Although UC officials said they had expected hundreds of student protesters to arrive especially from UC Santa Cruz, where protesters have been especially active in recent months only a few dozen showed up.
Students spoke just as passionately about a new campus in Richmond being planned by UC Berkeley. Students and community members alike urged the regents to make sure that UC signs a community benefit agreement with Richmond to ensure that residents benefit from jobs and any new housing that results from the campus that is still years away.
Suck it, Janet! (Napolitano, who is head of the UC Regents and is behind the hikes)
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Students protesting UC tuition hikes shut down regents meeting (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2015
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)1. UC president Napolitano caught on video calling student protest ‘crap’
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/03/18/uc-president-napolitano-caught-on-video-calling-student-protest-crap/
The future is ours, so just plan it, Janet! Dammit, Janet, I hate you! </rocky-horror>
Lets go. We dont have to listen to this crap.
That was the reaction of University of California Janet Napolitano, captured on video, when a few dozen student protesters got loud at Wednesdays meeting of the UC regents in San Francisco.
The students were protesting not only a tuition hike set for next fall, but a new campus in Richmond being planned by UC Berkeley. The students had urged the regents to ensure that residents in the low-income community benefit from jobs and any new housing that results from the campus that is still years from breaking ground....
The president is seen turning to Varner and saying, Lets go. Varner cant hear her over the students chanting, so she repeats: Lets go. We dont have to listen to this crap.
That was the reaction of University of California Janet Napolitano, captured on video, when a few dozen student protesters got loud at Wednesdays meeting of the UC regents in San Francisco.
The students were protesting not only a tuition hike set for next fall, but a new campus in Richmond being planned by UC Berkeley. The students had urged the regents to ensure that residents in the low-income community benefit from jobs and any new housing that results from the campus that is still years from breaking ground....
The president is seen turning to Varner and saying, Lets go. Varner cant hear her over the students chanting, so she repeats: Lets go. We dont have to listen to this crap.
The future is ours, so just plan it, Janet! Dammit, Janet, I hate you! </rocky-horror>