Tuesday News Overload: UC protests continue
Hundreds of students from across the University of California system rallied in Sacramento on Monday to urge lawmakers to increase state funding to higher education and increase diversity. Many chanted, "No cuts, no fees, education should be free" outside the Capitol while UC officials and other students met with state lawmakers inside, The Daily Californian reports. Five students were arrested after entering an assemblyman's office and refusing to leave unless he signed a letter promising support for increased funding for higher education as well as specific funding for recruiting and retaining low-income students.Late Thursday night a violent riot broke out near UC Berkeley, involving more than 200 people, "six law enforcement agencies, runaway dumpsters, flaming trash cans, shattered windows and violent clashes between rioters and police," The Daily Californian reported.
But the largest protest is yet to come. On Thursday students across the state -- at the University of California, state college, community college and K-12 campuses -- and about a dozen other states plan to hold protests, teach-ins and walkouts, The Sacramento Bee reports. Protesters are urged to "March forth on March 4th" so teachers and other workers can keep their jobs and students will not face higher fees and tuition. A student government representative told The Daily Bruinthat after similar protests last semester, "legislators know that they cannot put higher education on the bottom of their list of priorities, or they will be in trouble."
Porn for Bibles
Yesterday students at the University of Texas, San Antonio, could exchange their Bibles, Torahs, Korans and other religious texts for Playboys, Penthouses and other adult magazines at the annual Smut
Yesterday students at the University of Texas, San Antonio, could exchange their Bibles, Torahs, Korans and other religious texts for Playboys, Penthouses and other adult magazines at the annual Smut
