"What we can do as students is have our voices heard," said Andrew Lopez, 21, a communications and advertising major and ASI representative. "We’re telling lawmakers that they need to make higher education a priority. Go out there and find the money. This is where the next generation of . . . leaders . . . is being educated." Claudia Pinedo, 19, a sophomore nursing major, held the whiteboard with her message: "Now my parents will have to work double shifts to be able to afford my education." She hurried away to a student study group that was going to tackle amino acids, the subject of Chapter 19 in her chemistry book. "On Monday, the chemistry teacher told us that we’re going to have to learn a whole chapter on our own" because of the furlough, Pinedo said. "I could tell he felt bad. He felt frustrated."

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by Mike Anton, The Los Angeles Times.

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