Students at UCSC gathered yesterday with drums and bullhorns to protest the proposed new fee hike for students. With a decision by the UC Board of Regents looming today, tuition could be raised 32 percent—$2,500—over the next two years to help cover the system’s burgeoning deficit. As part of the protest, students blocked the campus gates for five hours yesterday to show their anger at the price hike.
But the protests were comparatively quiet, compared to the fray at UCLA, where the Board of Regents was meeting. Fourteen people were arrested there after refusing to leave the Board’s meeting. “We are bailing out the banks! We are bailing out Wall Street! Where is the bailout for public education?” one of them shouted. And a bailout may be necessary. Even with the fee hikes, the UC system will need a $913 million increase in state funding next year to cover its costs.
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