Protesters take over cottage on Quad
In their first major action of the winter quarter, Occupy UC Davis protesters on Tuesday afternoon took over the former home of the campus’ Cross-Cultural Center.
Though numbers fluctuated, at mid-afternoon about 50 remained inside the cottage, one of the campus’ oldest buildings, across from the Quad.
Since breaking camp on the Quad in December, protesters have been relatively quiet, holding workshops, meetings and small protests, without incident, at the U.S. Bank branch inside the Memorial Union.
“Over the winter break, people took time to refocus, re-energize and reorganize,” said Brett Lempke, a junior anthropology and philosophy major from Madison, Wis. “While I think there was the misconstrued perception that we were going away, that’s simply not the case.”
While protesters are always quick to say each has his or her own reason for