The UC-system-wide demonstrations over tuition hikes and budget cutbacks were also felt last week at the University of California Santa Cruz (America's wackiest university). It appears the little rascals at UCSC have learned their lessons well from their activist teachers. But how did that slip under the Fousesquawk radar for so long? Here is a report from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.(Hat tip to Donald Douglas at American Power)
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/rss/ci_13859820?source=rss
Kerr Hall lobby
blocking doors in Kerr Hall lobby
Kerr Hall lobby by elevator
Kerr Hall lobby reception desk
"Power to the people!"
Here is a statement issued by Vice Chancellor David Kliger on November 19 as the demonstration was on-going.
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/messages/text.asp?pid=3394
And here is another statement by Kliger the following day:
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/messages/text.asp?pid=3397
And there was this from Vice Chancellor of Student Judicial Affairs Felicia McGinty:
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/messages/text.asp?pid=3402
On November 22, Chancellor Blumenthal issued this statement:
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/messages/text.asp?pid=3403
Bettina Aptheker??? You mean the same Bettina Aptheker from the 1960s? That Bettina Aptheker?
Relivin' the good old days, eh Bettina?
Anyway, all's well that ends well. No arrests were made, and the entire USCS staff went off to lunch....
in their official state-issued Weeniemobile.
Oh, total cost of damages? $50,000-52,000. I hope I have enough documentation for Mr Anonymous at UC Davis in case he wants to challenge this "reactionary" in "solidarity" with the students at UC-Santa Cruz (AWU).
UCSC shouldn't complain too strenuously. After all, isn't that what they teach them to do in the Community Studies Department?
"Thou reap what thou hast sown"
A bunch of pigs. I guess their parents are very proud of them.
ReplyDeleteAnd it took Bettina Aptheker, the old commie professor who was doing the same stuff in the 60s to get them to dispurse.
ReplyDeleteHow ironic!