Protesters Stage Sit-In at UCOP in Latest Demonstration

About 150 UC Berkeley students and community members marched into the UC Office of the President in Oakland Monday afternoon, demanding to speak to UC President Mark Yudof. The group entered the lobby of the building at 2:30 p.m. and began a sit-in, asking to speak to UC officials to discuss their concerns about the way the university was handling its budget cuts. "They say our protests are misguided," said UC Berkeley student Cristina Urista, as protesters demanded to see the UC budget. "Why doesn’t the administration show us the budget?"

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by Hannah Edwards, The Daily Californian.

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