This Wednesday, October 21st, Fresno State saw one of it’s largest mobilizations since the 60s. The Student Walkout was in protest to the most recent fee increase of 32% (fees go up almost every year by around 10% usually), class furloughs (pay more get less!), over-crowded classrooms, faculty lay-offs, staff layoffs, corrupt administration, corrupt ASI who refuses to represent the students, really to challenge the entire CSU system… After the march there was a post-rally followed by a group of the students taking the list of demands to Welty’s office on the 4th floor of the library (in the rally there were many references to Welty’s tower where he could look down on his subjects and maintain inaccessibility)… VP Olario came out and we had "dialogue" with him for over an hour until Welty actually came back and agreed to a public meeting on Nov. 3 in the peace garden at noon. This is where he will respond to our demands (which he has previously ignored repeatedly) and hear directly from the students in front of media.

Read full article [here].
by CSU Walkout Coalition, The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center.

Posted: October 22nd, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.