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After the UC Regents approved the 32% hike in tuition fees yesterday, Berkeley students are taking action:"About 50 to 100 student demonstrators have taken over Wheeler Hall, a major building on the UC Berkeley campus, in protest of Thursday's 32 percent student fee increase passed by the UC Board of Regents.
Two students were arrested this morning at around 6 a.m., said Will Heegaard, a sophomore peace and conflict studies major and one of the protest's organizers. He said one of their immediate demands is for the police to free those students, and for the campus to rehire the janitors who were fired this school year. UCPD could not be reached for comment.
Heegaard, 19, said that he and others moved into the building shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday night, using ropes, a car ratchet and other gear. Calling from his cell phone at around 9:30 a.m. Friday, he said that the police's attempts to enter the ground floor, using wedges and crowbars, had forced the demonstrators to move to the second floor of the building...." A live blog of the event can be followed here at dailycal.org
http://www.dailycal.org/article/107611/protesters_in_wheeler_hall_say_activists_are_stayiAfter the UC Regents approved the 32% hike in tuition fees yesterday, Berkeley... more
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