Soooooo...
A few days ago I was browsing around on facebook, haha. when I see a status updates from one of my friends about a "UC WALKOUT." Intrigued, I continued to do some research on the topic. Turns out that on the 24th of September all of the UC schools had a planned walkout to protest the increased in student fees, no layoffs, no furloughs, and a variety of other things. Then planned to do this by having supporting UC faculty sign up to support the walkouts, also there were walkouts throughout all the UC schools where students and faculty alike were picketing and protesting in order to save their university.
http://ucfacultywalkout.com/
While reading the above link it was pretty obvious to me that this site was going to be extremely biased towards the side of those participating in the walkout. But after reading about it and seeing the amount of signatures I can see what they're complaining about and why they have a right to. The only thing I'm questioning about all this is if it will actually do anything to change the way UC administration has gone about doing things. But, I think it was a really cool thing that happened. I hope that these walkouts and protests will do something to stop the UC administration from continuing talk of even increasing the tuition for fall 2010 by 30%.
"On September 11 the LA Times and the SF Chronicle reported the UC President’s proposal to increase tuition by 30% by the fall of 2010. That is an unprecedented and absolutely unacceptable fee increase."
http://ucfacultywalkout.com/blog/
Here are some pics of the walkout from Berkeley :
http://i34.tinypic.com/wv4xp5.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/2ut18uw.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/2a6qwwl.jpg
Well that's just my 2 cents about all this.
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That is a crazy percent to increase tuition by. That would suck for my sister then because she goes to UC Berkeley.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the walkouts can force the hand of some of the administrators. Increasing tuition by 30% is going to throwback the country in the future so they should figure something else to do.
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