After the vote, students rushed to the parking decks to stage a sit-in to block regents’ vehicles from leaving. Campus police and California Highway Patrol officers in riot gear stood nearby. As one regent member walked out, students surrounded his path shouted, "Shame on you, shame on you." The situation ended without incident as students gradually left the scene. The University of California’s Board of Regents approved the plan a day after the regents’ finance committee also approved the 32-percent hike in undergraduate tuition fees. Some faculty members and campus workers — worried about furloughs and layoffs to come — joined the protesting students. "Stop cuts in education and research," a sign carried by a teacher said. Political Science Professor Mark Sawyer was in his UCLA classroom, giving a lecture on interracial marriage in Brazil, as the shouts of marching students neared. Protesters holding picket signs burst into the room shouting, "Walk out, walk out!" Sawyer said. The class was stunned, but moments later heeded the protesters’ calls. And Sawyer decided he’d walk out with them, too.

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by Alan Duke, CNN.

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