What was Mike Rotkin so worried about? This isn’t the ’60s. The protest wasn’t for our troops overseas, and money, not lives, were at stake. And yet Rotkin was nervous about having the Amgen Tour pass by the UCSC campus, where students were holding a walk-out to protest rising tuition.
What was Mike Rotkin so worried about? This isn’t the ’60s. The protest wasn’t for our troops overseas, and money, not lives, were at stake. And yet Rotkin was nervous about having the Amgen Tour pass by the UCSC campus, where students were holding a walk-out to protest rising tuition. Yup, there’s nothing quite as dangerous as students reciting poetry (“Ode to a Smashed Grecian Urn”?), playing soccer (without cups, no doubt) or attending a teach-in about communal living. It’s a good thing there was a a human barricade of 35 campus police in place to prevent the bombs from dropping, even if it was only F-bombs, and the targets were the state and college administrators, not the cyclists.
And so the cyclists whizzed by the campus, greeted by cheers, not hisses, according to UCSC Spokesman Jim Burns. All in all, it sounded like a nice event. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
