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To California Student Protesters: Why Target the Regents?
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyI have to ask: what, exactly, is the goal of the various University of California student protest movements and their vocal campaigns criticizing the regents' decision to hike tuition? It's true the UC system has been one of the biggest victims in California's budget nightmare. As a result of a $26-billion budget shortfall, the Democrats in the state legislature and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted what the University of California has called "unprecedented state budget cuts of $814 million in 2008-09 and $637 million in 2009-10." It's also true that students have been ...
Thousands in California Protest Campus Cuts, Furloughs
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyThousands of University of California students, faculty members, and employees rallied statewide Thursday to voice their concern about President Mark Yudof's and the regents' handling of the budget crisis (prior Cram coverage here).The walkout, scheduled on the day that most UC schools started their fall quarter, was intended to highlight the faculty's growing frustration over being forced to take furlough days outside of their regular teaching schedule. Participants also protested proposed budget cuts paired with tuition increases that would effectively increase undergraduate students' ...
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By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyNeda Agha Soltan's path is not well trod, but it's clear. These days the names Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are rolling off of everyone's tongues. MLK and Ghandi are indeed the stars of nonviolent resistance, but a more apt comparison might be Nazi Germany's Sophie Scholl. ...
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