UC system struggles to control protests, maintain free speech
Published: Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
First came the video of campus police jabbing students with batons at UC Berkeley, and then, less than two weeks later, pepper-spraying them at UC Davis.
To many academics, it was an outrage. On late-night TV, California once again became a national joke.
"When they say Berkeley is crunchy," comedian Stephen Colbert said, "I didn't realize they meant the students' rib cages."
As student anger over tuition increases and spending cuts spreads throughout the state this fall, a university system steeped in the tradition of the Free Speech Movement is straining under it
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Chancellor Katehi apologizes to protesters for University of California, Davis, pepper-spraying
On Monday, UC Davis' defining moment may have come as thousands of angry but polite students gathered on the quad to demand the resignation of Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi over the pepper-spraying of students by campus police last Friday.
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi talks at a rally Monday after listening for an hour as students, including several pepper-sprayed at a protest last week, denounced her. "I really feel
