Three UCSC graduate students wrote an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel defending student actions in the recent campus protests.
Three UCSC graduate students wrote an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel defending student actions in the recent campus protests. The three stated that their objective was to “express our support for this peaceful protest and challenge the administration’s blatantly dishonest communications to the community.”
The article claims that the administration engaged in “bad faith bargaining” with the students by failing to consider any of their demands. This unwillingness to negotiate is what caused the students to barricade themselves in the Kerr Building, they write. They also reject the administrations claim that the students caused $50,000 in damages, saying that most of it was paper and leftover food, and that the students themselves would have cleaned up had they not been forced out by the police. Students even offered to clean the building, they say, so as not to impose on the janitors, who are already facing job cuts and furloughs. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
