Students frustrated by the skyrocketing costs of going to college staged noisy demonstrations up and down the state Monday and said they were just warming up for protests against the governor’s proposed $1 billion cut to higher education. "The state budget doesn’t pass until June, so we have plenty of time to keep pressing," said Jennifer Knox of the UC Students Association, one of several student groups that organized the half-dozen banner-waving, slogan-chanting protests from the state Capitol to San Diego to Humboldt County.

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by Tanya Schevitz, Kevin Fagan, and Matthew Yi, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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