Five UC students were arrested Monday at the office of Assemblyman Jim Nielsen after refusing to leave unless the Gerber (Tehama County) Republican pledged to preserve funding for higher education and increase student diversity… It was a dramatic moment that stood in contrast to a day when small groups of students in business attire met with lawmakers or their aides to express frustration at Sacramento’s failure to maintain its world-class public university systems. The students urged them to create a dedicated funding stream for higher education, fully fund Cal Grants and roll back fee increases. But they got few firm commitments.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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