CSU trustees raise tuition as students protest
California State University trustees raised tuition by 9 percent today, even as CSU police used pepper spray and clashed violently with protesters who had been escorted from the university’s Long Beach headquarters. A glass door shattered when protesters tried to get back into the building and police inside pushed back. One officer was sent to the hospital, and four protesters, including three CSU students, were arrested, CSU officials said. The trustees raised tuition for the second time this year, voting 9-to-6 for the increase.
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.