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During two days of protests at UCLA, where the UC regents met to vote on the fee increase, about 2,000 students from the 10-campus system confronted riot police, shouted slogans and blocked building exits. Like a scene out of the angry 1960s, students surged against barricades and briefly seized a building near the main campus quad; police used taser guns on several protesters, and arrested nearly 20. All the while, police helicopters hovered overhead, TV vans with high antennas stood ready and students played drums and strummed guitars...
...major problem for many students. "Some of my friends won't be here next quarter. Before it was a question of how smart you were. Now, it's do you have enough money to pay for school." Veronica Hernandez, who grew up in East LA and attends UC Riverside, said, "It took a long time for minorities to increase their numbers at the University of California. Now those numbers are going to go down." University officials say many students would be shielded from the effects of the tuition hike by additional financial...
...mail, which was sent to the UC’s open e-mail list, stated that Hysen may have been able to log in to the software that tracks the results of UC elections after receiving the necessary passwords from former UC Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 upon Sarafa’s graduation...
...This was basically 10, 20 years in the making,” said outgoing Undergraduate Council president Andrea R. Flores ’10, who called this the “happiest news of [her] UC presidency...
...idea that I would, after spending three years on the UC, spending as much time as I have working to improve the institution that is the UC, tamper with the results is so ridiculous,” Hysen said...