Students Hold Peaceful Protest Of Budget Cuts At UCLA
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About 40 people gathered on the lawn at UCLA Thursday, listening to speeches about recent budget cuts.
The cuts have led to crowded classes and higher tuition at California's public universities.
The speeches were part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education.
After the speeches, the group marched around campus and inside buildings, playing the drums, chanting, yelling into a megaphone, and even doing handstands.
At one point, students and others marched to the hallway of the Chancellor's office and raised their middle finger in unison.
Police guarded the door, but students didn't try to enter the office, anyway.
"The protest was very peaceful," said Nancy Greenstein of the UCLA Police Department.
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Apologies--I meant the protests were no MORE disruptive than the UCLA marching band. The UCLA marching band was really loud for the entire afternoon!
I was on campus during the protest and the protestors' chanting was no less disruptive than the UCLA marching band which played for approximately the same length of time a couple hours later. The protesters also made an excellent point by coming out yesterday: it was the same day that the California state passed a budget restoring some of the funding to the UCs, but the UC Regents have no plan to repeal or even reduce last year's 32% tuition increase. In fact they are actually considering additional increases of 5-15% per year! There is something seriously wrong with that logic.
so they went into buildings where classes could have been in session and played drums and chanted...very peaceful. It's just like last year when they protested, they were very disruptive of students in class who probably wanted to learn and not be bothered by annoying protestors