University students take over a lobby inside Tolman Hall at UC Berkeley on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. The protesters are angered by rising tuition fees and cutbacks in classes.
Posted on 09/22/2011 5:38:33 PM PDT by SmithL
BERKELEY -- The protest season began with a near bang at UC Berkeley this afternoon as hundreds of chanting, fist-pumping students angry about tuition hikes charged into Tolman Hall after a raucous noon rally.
They filled the ground-floor hallways and jostled police officers. One student grabbed an officer's .40-caliber magazine, sending the ammunition clip flying.
Officer Donna Chapman, who had been trying to order students to clear the building entrance, ran to pick up the clip before protesters could grab it. Around her, students shouted "No cuts, no fees, education must be free" as they flooded into the building. Classrooms on the ground floor of Tolman Hall, which houses the education and psychology schools, are empty because of seismic retrofitting work.
"We're going to try to be putting the classrooms to better use," said Callie Naidhoff, a doctoral student in anthropology.
Another doctoral student, Shane Boyle, addressing the 80 to 100 students gathered in a 50-student classroom, said: "We're in the education department. We might as well use the space to educate."
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“We want your money and we want it now!”
hey don’t blame us. Your Jerry Brown is in charge
this calls for fecal spray..
I never understand these college kids.
These college kids do not have to be there. If they don’t like it, leave. Go get a job in the “real world”. Heck they might learn better life lessons if they got a job. Among other lessons, they might learn that Berkeley doesn’t just run on auto pilot. Somebody has to pay the bills to make the place run, plan for ongoing maintence, keep these students fed and housed, and many other matters. If these students really think that “education must be free”, they should go into the world and learn that nothing is free, and somebody is paying for their education.
Then, after they learn some good life lessons, maybe then they would appreciate the great opportunity of a college education that someone is providing to them.
OK, let’s make ‘education’ free.
But there’s not enough in the world’ll help these morons.
parasites.
they voted obama and the democrat state assembly and brown,
so what do they expect?
Grab at my ammo mag & you’ll get my pistol bore down your throat.
They can go live in their parents basement and watch Khan academy videos and get a better free education than they are getting at UC
Education must be free? What planet are these jerks from? Berkeley has NEVER been free, even when it was free. When my husband and I were students there, it was against the law to charge tuition. But, it was legal to charge fees. So, there were fees for everything — fees to use the library, fees to use lecture halls, athletic fees, etc, etc. This was in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s so it didn’t amount to much, but everything was chaper then.
I don’t know what Berkeley is charging now, but when I went there, fees amounted to $55 per semester + books compared to Stanford and Northwestern that were charging about $1100 per quarter.
When my kids started college (late ‘70s and early ‘80s), Berkeley was still one of the cheapest educations in the country for an in-state student.
So they’re mad when tuition goes up and mad when programs get cut. Are they mad at their stupid commie teachers? How about mad at stupid commies in general? Those are the people making everything cost so dang much!
Great retention skills there "officer."
Most of the inane comments come from “Doctoral” students.
The only job the majority will get in many of these fields will be in other institutions of “higher learning”, passing their values along to the next class of worthless degree holders, mostly at taxpayer expense.
Of course, some of the “education” doctoral candidates will get jobs infecting our children with those values,which led to so many of them (our children) voting for a socialist and being so proud of themselves.
God help us all.
“”No cuts, no fees, education must be free””
Given the quality of these students, they are getting full value with their “free” education.
Hey mom, I got an A+ in my underwater womyn’s global warming basket weaving class last year. This year I’ll be taking another class in degenerate sex change variation philosophy...it’ll be another easy A.
You don’t see the real students in that photo, only the troublemakers. The real students are hunched over monitors in the computer labs, getting a quick cigarette behind the physics building, or cleaning glassware in a cold silent building with recirculated air.
I suppose they might have yanked an extra mag out of a belt carrier, rather than the weapon, if that’s an excuse.
But it’s just a symptom. Used to be a punk touched a weapon or Sam Browne they’d be hauled out of there RIGHT NOW and thrown in a van.
Of course this is Berkeley. Cops are the oppressors. His weapon (.40??) probably wasn’t even loaded. Hell, he probably had the magazine in his shirt pocket a la Barney Fife.
I was recentl called upon to find various state schools’ tuitions in and out of state. Here’s #1 public U, Berkeley, per USN&WR for the 2010-11 school year. This is tuition only.
UC –Berkeley (#1 Public; #22 National) $10,868 in-state; $33,747 out-of-state
As a 'non-traditional' college student (my youngest daughter is older than most of these losers) I've been to the Khan Academy site many times to get a handle on calculus.
The legislature, obviously, has changed its laws on tuition. I wonder if they actually call it tuition? That was the rub when I went there (and the joke). They could charge all the fees they wanted, they just couldn’t call it TUITION — that word was prohibited.
When my kids were shopping for colleges in the late 70s and early 80s, it still was pretty cheap — in the $5000 range. I know that $55/semester sounds unbelievably cheap, but you have to consider the dollar of the time. First year public school teachers wre being hired for $5000 per year in those days, and gas was 29 cents/gal. We still had a 3 cent first class postage stamp.
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