The San Francisco campus is cutting $30.2 million this year. That means it’s offering 354 fewer classes than last year, turning away dozens of lecturers, requiring employees to take two unpaid days off each month – and raising student fees 30 percent higher than last fall. "I’m pissed because they cut, like, a ton of classes, and we’re paying more money – it’s stressful," said sophomore Elle Sandbloom, standing in the crowd of business majors forced to remain outside of Professor Scott Jerris’ Accounting 100 class because there was no room inside. Students register online at a time assigned to them. But because so many courses have been eliminated, many students found that classes were full by the time they were told to sign up. So all across campus, students were "crashing" classes – showing up at the classroom door and hoping for mercy from professors willing to take on additional students. It’s like going standby on an airline.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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