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Student Protests At CSU Fresno
(Fresno CA)
Students all over the nation today are protesting increases in tuition, reduced class offerings, furloughs and more. At CSU Fresno, students marched from Shaw Avenue to campus chanting and carrying posters and the like. The event was tame and offered the gathering of peace officers little to do.
Go 'Dogs...!
Traffic on 19th Avenue was temporarily shut down today when students from San Francisco State University protesting cuts to educational funding poured into the street and blocked traffic.
~SF Gate
Rowdy protesters blocked the main gates of a California university Thursday amid campus protests across the nation against deep cuts in education funding.
~CBS News
Protesters of a tuition hike at University of California campuses stood their ground into Friday night, with 41 demonstrators at UC Berkeley cited for trespassing after their takeover of a campus building.
~CNN.com
Contact Your Regents
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/budget/
Vote by phone
1-800-ed-msnbc
1-800-336-7622
References
CBS News. (n.d.). Thousands Protest Calif. Education Cuts - CBS News. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/04/national/main6266551.shtml?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed.
CNN.com. (n.d.). Protests of tuition increase continue on California campuses - CNN.com. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/20/california.tuition.protests/.
Marshall, P. (n.d.). SF State Protest Temporarily Shuts Down Traffic | 92510 | East Bay Express. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.eastbayexpress.com/92510/archives/2010/03/04/sf-state-protest-temporarily-shuts-down-traffic.
MSNBC.com. (n.d.). Strapped schools force teacher furloughs - Education- msnbc.com. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32644289/ns/us_news-education/.