UC protests loud but peaceful; no major disruptions or problems reported
About 700 students, faculty and staff attended a noontime rally at UCLA’s Bruin Plaza today as part of a systemwide day of protests against UC fee hikes, class reductions and pay cuts… Among the speakers at the hourlong rally was English professor Jenny Sharpe, who like others denounced both UC President Mark G. Yudof and lawmakers in Sacramento for what she said was shifting the cost of public higher education from the state to the students. "State support for higher education has to be seen as a public good, not a private privilege," she told the crowd.
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by Larry Gordon, Tony Barboza and Maria LaGanga, The Los Angeles Times.