Posted on 11/23/2009 8:26:19 PM PST by SmithL
As part of the ongoing protest over the University of California's 32 percent fee increase, UC Berkeley students marched to UC President Mark Yudof’s office in Oakland Monday afternoon and staged a sit-in, demanding to meet with him.
The students went to Yudof’s office after finding out at the Alameda County Superior court that burglary charges against three Wheeler Hall occupiers had been reduced to a misdemeanor.
UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof confirmed that there were students in Yudof’s office “who were engaged in peaceful conversation with officials there.”
Mogulof said Yudof was not present.
An employee at the UC Office of the President, who answered the phone around 5 p.m. Monday, but refused to give his name, said the office had received internal reports that some students had come into the lobby staged a protest there.
He said that Peter King, who is in charge of media relations for the office, had gone down to the lobby to talk to them and that employees were being asked to use alternative exits because of the protesters.
King could not be reached immediately for comment.
UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau issued a statement Monday saying that an independent review panel consisting of students, faculty members and staff would investigate the allegations of police brutality at Friday’s protest. Several students have charged that police used excessive force during the protests outside Wheeler Hall, sometimes beating individuals with batons and firing rubber bullets.
One girl had her finger broken by a baton and another student complained that the police simultaneously struck him with a baton and fired a rubber bullet at him.
“We truly regret the incidents that brought physical and emotional injury to members of our community,” Birgeneau said. “UCPD has already begun conducting an operational review that entails collection of all the available information including reports, videos and pictures taken by UCPD, students, the public, and media, to ensure that actions were reasonable given the situation presented and the information known at the time. This includes a review of uses of force.”
“We truly regret the incidents that brought physical and emotional injury to members of our community,”Sure, encourage the Entitled Youts.
ROCK THE VOTE, KIDDIES!
Students going to expensive Ivory Towers dressed to the 9’s in the latest expensive styles, sipping expensive lattes with bags of dope hanging out of their back pockets.
Yeah - the image of the blue collar working joes.
Morons. They’ll keep on voting Democrats who in turn give away tax-payer’s money to liberal special interest groups; Then there’s no money for them. There’s only SO MUCH money.
Reap what you sow!
Dumb-asses.
what a bunch of foolish s***heads
Try this on for size.
C'mon, show some balls, p*ssies. /sarc>
I swear, William Ayers must be spinning in his grave.
...oh, wait. He's not dead yet.
Just think what would happen if student radicals tried to take over the U of Chicago with armed force today: including taking Ayers and Dohrn hostage.
The cognitive dissonance on the part of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and NPR would be friggin' priceless.
Cheers!
List of demands made by the protesters occupying the University of California Santa Cruz buildings:
Exempt from suspension or expulsion all demonstrators;
Save campus resource centers that serve underrepresented minorities, women and the queer community;
Protect undocumented workers by not cooperating with immigration officials;
Renege a 15 percent cut in work time for custodians;
Prohibit rent in Family Student Housing from exceeding that of operating costs;
Freeze layoffs on all campus employees;
Guarantee funding through employment or fee remissions for graduate students who have lost teaching assistant slots and undergraduates who have lost work-study positions.
Poetic justice.
UC Berkeley is a very liberal university with many students and faculty that think we should pay more in taxes, yet they’re complaining about a tuitition hike.
Am I missing something here???
What do these idiots think money grows on trees? (I guess you won't find many accounting majors in that crowd).
<SARCASM>The softies! I'd say the UC is gettin' off easy.</SARCASM>
You’re absolutely right. They should raise the voting age to 21 maybe a couple of years makes a difference.
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