UC regents' meetings disrupted by protesters
Before Monday’s meeting began, the union representing UC Berkeley police officers released a statement asking regents and UC administrators not to “ask us to enforce your policies, then refuse to stand by us when we do.” “It was not our decision to engage campus protesters,” said the UC Berkeley Police Officers Association. “We are now faced with ‘managing’ the results of years of poor budget planning.” The regents met Monday after postponing their regularly scheduled meeting earlier this month out of fear of violent demonstrations. UC President Mark Yudof said afterward in San Francisco that he sympathized with the protesters’ plight. “I wish they wouldn’t interrupt a public meeting,” he said, but added “the students have taken it on the chin for the past decade … I definitely understand the students’ position.”
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by Jill Tucker, Kevin Fagan and Carolyn Jones, The San Francisco Chonicle.