Some funds restored, temperature lowered at UC protests
SF Public Press
— Oct 13 2010 - 5:40pm
Students and workers at the University of California continue to protest against the accumulated budget cuts to public education, but it has been harder to galvanize this year’s crop of would-be education activists, in part because a last-minute budget restoration in early October meant the cuts, at least this year, would not go any deeper.
The apparent success of last year’s rallies may in part be responsible for this year’s relatively low-key demonstrations. The hundreds of students, faculty and staff who gathered in Sproul Plaza for a Day of Action last Thursday at UC Berkeley got a morale boost when they were reminded that Gov. Arnold