At Rallies Across the Country, Students Turn Out in Defense of Public Education
On several campuses of the University of California, which lost $637-million in state appropriations last year, groups also held events to mark Thursday’s "National Day of Action to Defend Public Education." At the University of California at Berkeley, demonstrators at a variety of events protested the cuts and their effects on public colleges and universities. One event, a sit-in in a library reading room, drew some 500 participants before the campus police blocked access. The demonstrators banged on desks and chanted "Whose university? Our university!" and several hundred remained in the room as of late afternoon, but there were no reports of arrests, according to the university’s News Center.
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by Paige Chapman and Eric Kelderman, The Chronicle of Higher Education.