Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California State University should vote again on a tuition increase or risk questions about its legitimacy, after school trustees endorsed the 9 percent jump behind closed doors… The tuition increase, bitterly opposed by students, was endorsed after a chaotic meeting Wednesday in Long Beach in which demonstrators battled with police, shattering a glass door and sending an officer to the hospital with cuts. Trustees retreated from an auditorium to a smaller, closed room, where the university’s attorney assured members the session complied with state open-meeting laws. Those rules say the media “shall be allowed to attend,” but reporters and television crews in a hallway weren’t told the meeting resumed and didn’t learn until afterward that a vote was taken.

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by Michael R. Blood, The San Jose Mercury News.

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