A day after police forcibly removed an Occupy Cal encampment, several hundred students gathered on the steps at Sproul Plaza on Thursday evening to plan for a general strike at the university and decide whether to defy campus policy and set up new tents. The students voted to walk out of classes Tuesday in opposition to cuts in higher education and called on teachers and graduate students to join them… Birgeneau commended demonstrators who chose to be arrested peacefully. “These protesters were acting in the tradition of peaceful civil disobedience, and we honor them,” he said in the e-mail also signed by other campus administrators. On the other hand, he noted, other protesters formed a human chain by interlocking arms to prevent police from tearing down the tents. “This is not nonviolent civil disobedience,” he said. Many students weren’t buying it.

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by Nanette Asimov and Jill Tucker, The San Francisco Chonicle.

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