Posted on 11/23/2009 7:55:57 AM PST by SmithL
Dozens of student protesters who took over a UC Santa Cruz administrative building after a systemwide tuition increase were removed Sunday morning when police officers in riot gear ordered them to exit the building or face arrest.
No arrests were made, and university officials said the operation concluded peacefully. But videos provided by some of the 70 or so protesters show a tense scene, with officers pushing their way through a wall of students chanting "We are peaceful, what about you?" to reach the entrance of Kerr Hall.
Anthropology Professor Mark Anderson suffered minor injuries after he was squeezed off a second-floor railing lining the path to the building, said protesters and media reports. No other injuries were reported.
On Thursday, protesters displaced about 150 workers from Kerr Hall and issued a list of demands to the university, which included freezing campus layoffs, rescinding a 15 percent cut on custodians' work hours and agreeing not to cooperate with immigration authorities investigating UC Santa Cruz students and workers. But negotiations with university officials broke down Saturday night.
"Most of their demands from beginning to end involved spending funds that the university no longer has," UC Santa Cruz spokesman Jim Burns said.
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Yeah, it was misguided back then too, but at least they had guts.
mark
In the end, reality always trumps socialist ideology.
tuition increases were predictable. Whenever the state or fed government gets involved and tries to “do something” about tuition costs, they go up. It is predictable and foreseeable by anyone with a brain who is paying attention, so that excludes most college students and liberals.
at least at Pitt they forced the Chancellor to spend millions on a secret escape hatch for his 13th. floor offices
they could start by cutting out the useless social ‘science’
curriculum based on race, sex and national origin.
UCSC has more than its share of drumming, basket weaving,
race studies, marxist theory and other useless classes.
CA students are about to get a hard lesson in how a business (aka university) works.....C
Perhaps they should instead issue their list of demands to the Democrat legislators they elected.
I think this is the place that they damaged.
They should send their Parents a list of Demands.
After all, they raised these self important Parasites.
The parent's refusal to discipline while raising these children is the reason they require a police administered hickory shampoo today.
I, for one am a big, big proponent of the hickory shampoo for adolescent rabble. I have had my fill of them due to living near San Francisco my whole life.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has pics of the mess they made in the building.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_13848750http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_13848750
If the Government subsidizes a commodity to the tune of “x,” then the price of said commodity will equal the original price + x.
In the same way the IRS uses non-violent methods to enforce tax law.
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