Loading ...There’s plenty to be seen and heard in terms of walkout coverage on the ground …
Image Source: Anna Hiatt, Daily Cal
… but what about the rest of the world watching via the Internet? Here are some highlights:
Wednesday, Nov. 18
6:51 p.m.
“As hundreds of students rushed the building today where UC Regents were meeting – throwing wet red bandannas meant to look like blood – the regents’ finance committee voted to recommend a 32 percent student fee increase, setting off planned protests at several UC campuses.” [SFGate]
“The two-day meeting is being held at UCLA, where today’s session has been marked by raucous protests with at least 14 arrests. … A presentation on the budget and fee increase proposal by UC President Mark Yudof was interrupted. Police cleared the public from the hall but a group of protesters refused to leave, standing and singing ‘We Shall Overcome.’” [LA Times]
“‘We seem to be fighting each other rather than working together,’ said Regent Sherry Lansing, a former Paramount Pictures CEO, after several student outbursts had delayed the meeting. ‘This choice is not our choice. This is something that has been put on us by the Legislature and the federal government.’” [MercuryNews]
“Hundreds of students, staff and faculty massed on Sproul Plaza Wednesday for a rally denouncing student fee hikes, program cuts, layoffs and other cutbacks across the UC system. The rally, smaller than a similar protest in September, was part of a three-day strike that resulted in some class cancellations or relocations and scattered office closures.” [NewsCenter]
“English professor Bob Hass, a former U.S. poet laureate, called for higher taxes so that more money can be spent on education. Hass said California spent more money per student on education than all but one or two states before Proposition 13, which limits property tax increases, was passed in 1978. California now ranks nearly last on spending per student, he said.” [CBS5]
“I think it’s necessary to have a large number of students down there to show that it’s not just the unions, it’s the students being affected. In about eight years my daughter will be applying to school so I have to do this, you know?” [NYTimes] via Bay Area Blogs
And where oh where is Bearcardo?
“I see students really, really, really stressed out,” said Ricardo Gomez of the group Berkeley Students Against Cuts. “Not knowing whether or not they’re going to be here next semester.” [FoxReno]
Thursday, Nov. 19
10:07 a.m.
“About 30 students stormed UCLA’s Campbell Hall and barricaded the doors with chains and bike locks early this morning to protest a student fee increase that is expected to be endorsed by the University of California’s Board of Regents today.” [LA Times]
12:40 p.m.
“Dozens of students lined up early for seats inside the regents meeting, hoping for a chance at the microphone during the public comment time before today’s vote. Campus police with riot gear lined up between the loud but peaceful protesters and the entrance.” [CNN]
“Upon hearing the news about the vote to hike fees, an estimated 500 students at UCSC — some in costumes and face paint, some carrying picket signs — marched to the base of campus at Bay Drive and High Street and the west entrance on Empire Grade. They stood or sat in the middle of the road, blocking vehicles trying to enter UCSC. Police diverted traffic at several points leading to campus.” [Santa Cruz Sentinel]
2:11 p.m.
“Crossed the picket lines. In order to get my fucking education.” [Twitter]
4:06 p.m.
“Outside the meeting at UCLA where regents of the University of California raised student tuition today by 32 percent, about 1,000 students lay on the ground to symbolize what they called the death of affordable higher education, particularly for students from low-income families.” [SFGate]
“Only one member of the board, student regent Jesse Bernal, voted against the plan that UC officials said was necessary due to a recent plunge in financial aid from the state. The Los Angeles Times said the vote came with little discussion among the members and amid loud protests that could be heard in the campus meeting room.” [UPI.com]
“Some University of California regents who approved a student fee increase are trapped inside a UCLA building as protesters block the exits. The demonstrators are being confronted Thursday by lines of baton-wielding campus police, California Highway Patrol officers and metal barriers. … One person inside the building says the regents have been held there for two hours. [AP] via Google
4:29 p.m.
“UC President escorted out w police w tazers and rubber guns as students chant Shame on you.” [Twitter]
4:42 p.m.
6:43 p.m.
” … UC students should explore other means available to pay for their education: They can always go to community college like the rest of us. Screw those spoiled brat UCLA students. Hit up your rich mommies and daddies for the difference. Cry me a river. What a bunch of useless losers.” [LA Times]
Friday, Nov. 20
12:30 a.m.
“Police arrested 52 people at UC Davis after hundreds protested a 32 percent increase in undergraduate student fees on Thursday.” [KCRA]
9:04 a.m.
“UC Berkeley students took over a campus building in protest this morning, a day after the University of California regents voted to raise tuition by 32 percent. An undetermined number of protesters barricaded themselves at about 6 a.m. inside Wheeler Hall, which houses the English department.” [SF Gate]
“The campus police are working to resolve a protest action that is occurring in Wheeler Hall. Staff, faculty and students who would normally be working in Wheeler Hall are asked to remain out of the building until further notice. Employees who can contact their supervisors should talk to them if possible to determine whether telecommuting or relocation to another work area is an option. Those in the building right now are advised to leave until the situation has been resolved.
Employees who remain on campus may check in at Dwinelle Plaza at 10am. for further information.
Thank you to all of the members of the campus community for your patience in this matter.” -UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau via e-mail
10:49 a.m.
Campus police continue to work to resolve the protest action at Wheeler Hall. Campus police are striving to end the occupation of Wheeler Hall with the safety of our campus community, including all those involved in this action, as an uppermost priority.
Wheeler Hall will remain closed until further notice. Instructors who teach in Wheeler Hall will be contacted shortly by e-mail.” -Bobby B., again, via e-mail
12:41 P.M.
From the Daily Cal and the Daily Clog’s Twitter accounts:
“UC officers taser at least two student protesters at UCLA http://bit.ly/5CYv8u”
“Photo of police barricade in front of Wheeler Hall #ucstrike #ucregents http://www.dailycal.org/image.php?id=15855″
“One of our field reporters says that the crowd in front of Wheeler Hall is talking about storming the building. #ucstrike #ucregents”
“Fire alarms at Dwinelle, Barrows, MLK, Moffitt and VLSB have gone off in the last hour; hundreds of students evacuated. #ucstrike #ucregents”
“According to one of the organizers, Breslauer has agreed to begin negotiations with them.”
11:56 p.m.
Due to a massive amount of traffic, the Clog was temporarily down for much of the day. To read our coverage of Friday’s occupation of Wheeler, go to twitter.com/thedailyclog
Expect continual updates throughout the course of the strike.
Image Source (lower): Valerie Woolard
32% Inflation in UCLA Tuition Causes Near Riots (14 Arrested, 1 Tasered) [YouTube]
Tags:Mark Yudof, No Business As Usual, Proposition 13, Ricardo Gomez, UC Berkeley rallies, UC Regents, UC strikes, walkout coverage
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Sep 13, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Fun
Dec 1, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Extravagant $3 Million Spent on Consultants by UCB Chancellor Birgeneau: do the work of your job Chancellor. Why does one of the top universities in the world have to spend $3 million of taxpayer money for consultants to do what should be done internally by UCB Chancellor Birgeneau?
Who teaches auditors how to audit? Do UC professors not have the knowledge to perform what they teach?
Having firsthand knowledge of consulting, I know one cardinal rule, “Don’t bite the hand that pays you.”
In a nutshell, we have a high-paid, skilled UCB Chancellor who is unable or unwilling to do the job he is paid to do. Why do we wonder that student, UC and California are in a financial crisis!
I’m sure taxpayers would not object to the $3 million payout if the money is reimbursed by taking money from the UCB Chancellor’s salary over the next 10 years.
Stop spending $3,000,000 on consultants (approved by UC President Yudof) and have the UCB Chancellor do the job internally with the help of the UCB Academic Senate Leadership, world class faculty and staff
(Does everyone but /UC/UCB know that California is in recession?