Students protesting the fee hike take over UCLA's Campbell Hall and chain the doors.

[liberal N proud]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla-protests19-pictures,0,1019118.photogallery



A protest camp-out


Inside Campbell Hall



For a cause

[havocmom]

1. hmmmm, while I know the problem is finances

seeing college kids so engaged again is oddly comforting.

[Go2Peace]

17. protest for the pocketbook! Excuse me if I don't get all warm and fuzzy

[havocmom]

19. I figure protest for rates that let them stay in school

it's a start

[Le Taz Hot]

2. K & R

Kudos to our students! I'm so proud. <sniff>

And kudos to the OP who simply posted the article sans the elitist geographic bigotry.

[mike_c]

5. whoa! students are protesting in FRESNO too!!!

:evilgrin: :hi:

Must. Resist. Morning. Snark.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. Yeah, I hear they had a rally

in back of the school's outhouse. ;-) :hi:

[Greyhound]

3. K&R, and "Right On!" n/t

[liberal_at_heart]

4. good for them

Sadly enough change usually is left up to the young people. We older people have too many obligations to take care of to truly effect change. I'm in my thirties and I have an autistic son. Am I really going do something as drastic as these young people have done? Probably not. I wish I could. One thing I have done in the past that I am proud of is that I went to a huge protest the day before we invaded Iraq. There were about 10,000 people there. It was great to be a part of something so big.

[FirstLight]

6. yeah!

We need MORE of this!

I am such an advocate for protest, probably because my parents wouldn't let me do anything like that growing up. Besides, i miss the unity and protests of the 60's, wonder where it went in MY generation because we just seem to have gone along with everything ...maybe because we felt we had no voice or choices... ?

but this is so heartening, i wish them luck!

[G_j]

8. 32% tuition hike!

according to CNN

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. had to hit them in the wallet before they acted, aye?

figures...

sP

[intheflow]

10. Yea!! Good for them!

Big ol' k&r for old school student activism!

[Hepburn]

11. Yay!!!

:thumbsup:

I was a UC student in the 1960s...and I welcome the change back of going to the streets ~~ or as the case may be, campus buildings!

:patriot:

[Echo In Light]

12. Kudos

[defendandprotect]

13. k i c k - kick - kick

[EFerrari]

14. Good.

[fishwax]

15. kick for the UC Strike

:kick:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. "Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck

[a la izquierda]

18. good luck, kiddos...

they've promised not to jack our fees again here. my tuition is paid (i'm a grad student)...but the fees are a killer. at this point, though, i'm so in debt another couple hundred bucks is a drop in the bucket. pretty sad. i'll end up working for the government so that i can pay my debt off sooner (and university's aren't hiring right now. it's a good thing i'm a latin americanist...always problems down there that need experts.

nice to see kids with brains in their skulls not concerned only with fashion, american idol and twilight (sorry to generalize, but it's all my students talk about lately).