Breaking Cal News: Student Protest Turns Hostile at UC Regents Office in Berkeley
Approximately 150 students have staged a "Takeover" at the University of California Regents office. The office handles administrative, executive and financial duties for the UC system, which includes Pac 10 schools University of California at Berkeley (Cal) and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
The protest is in response to a whopping 32% increase in state tuition fees.
It is not news that both Cal and UCLA have stellar and big time sports programs, that generate tens of millions of dollars of revenue for both the individual schools sports programs and into the general Regents fund. Helping to fund lesser known University of California campuses, such as UC Riverside in Southern California, Or UC San Diego.
There are UC campuses up and down and across the state, but only the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses have major sports teams.
The UC system is renowned for being among the most academically progressive and prestigious in the country.
Students from Berkeley and UCLA routinely compete on a level academic field with the likes of Harvard, Yale or Stanford.
The difference, however, is that the schools just mentioned are all private, and outside of the financial means of many of the students that attend Cal or UCLA.
The tuition rise is significant and has sparked protests at campuses across the state.
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