UCSC students protest proposed fee hikes

[Joanne98]

Source: Mercury News

SANTA CRUZ -- About 150 UC Santa Cruz students rallied today to protest a proposed 8 percent fee increase.

The noon rally coincided with the beginning of a meeting in San Francisco, where the UC regents are addressing UC President Mark Yudof's proposals for post-employment benefits reform and student fee increases. Graduate students and other staff were on hand in support.

"I think the people who aren't protesting have a myopic view. This will increase their debt and it will effect their children's education in the future," said Nina Mautner, a UCSC junior. "Public education has been degraded for years now. We're not getting what we're paying for." The rally started with about 100 people in the Porter College Quad. The march wound through the campus and grew to about 200 students at its height. The students occupied the Terra Fresca restaurant at the University Center for about 20 minutes.

They left the restaurant and proceeded to an intersection near Quarry Plaza, which the dwindling number of protestors blocked for about 20 minutes. They voted to disperse rather than cause any further disruption at 1:45 p.m.

"After 35 students had charges brought against them for the March 4 rally, I think a lot of students are now scared to come out and join the protests," graduate student and teacher's assistant Mark Paschal said.




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[MindandSoul]

1. I am a UCSC alumni (1993) and it is a shame that more students at the UCSC campus

do not realize that it is their future, and the future of this university that they are facing.
More students should have supported this protest. Is UCSC losing it's ideal? Do UCSC students realize what this University is all about, that it was born from the Berkeley protest in the early 1970's???

If you give up. . .there is no hope for the rest of the UC system. . .it will become nothing more than another elitist university that bends to the "conservative" ideology!

Wake up, and do something!

[alp227]

2. Mark Yudof and his overpaid cronies deserve a pay cut n/t