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Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday,. Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes and layoffs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Oh dear.
We found this charming video, which you can view after the jump, over at SF Appeal. It seems that during today's UC Berkeley fee-hike protest, some students got a bit rowdy. So rowdy, in fact, that the fuzz had to put a beat down on a few rapscallions, which is typical during protests that get unseemly whenever the police show up.
According to YouTube user kurtjimi27, who shot the footage, it all started when protesters attempted to block a a cop from transporting a barricade to Wheeler Hall.
As students attempted to block a barricade from being walked in to the Wheeler perimeter, a cop pushed a student to the floor and another punched a kid in the face (video starts around this point). After this incited the students to stay firm, the first cop took out his club and started jabbing students in the stomach which caused the students to back up and the eventually cops went to the right to get through.
As of 2 p.m. students remain barricaded on the second floor of Wheeler Hall.
Check out footage of the protest turning course after the jump.
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I'm confused. I missed the part where the UC regents have access to a magic wand they can wave to produce $500 million out of thin air.
Hey "kurtjimi27," great job of getting footage of everyone else filming the protesters.
In a society where everyone goes to College -- a degree isn't worth that much. If they just reduced the student body by half -- there would be no funding problem as everyone is already subsidized by the tune of $30,000 a year.
In a society where everyone goes to college, the guy who doesn't have a degree will be unemployed.
In a society where everyone goes to college, the guy who has a degree will be unemployed just like every other guy who has a degree because everyone has degrees.
College diploma=the new high school diploma.
Maybe this will thin the ol' college graduate ranks a bit. Give that diploma some value!
The most recent statistics based on the census show that of the 25+ population in CA, only around 29% have college degrees.
Facts FTW!
And... if college was truly worth a lot then it wouldn't be a problem to pay off the loans incurred.
And anyone that thinks you can measure and education solely on how much money you make off it, probably does not deserve one.
i measure it on my ability to use modifiers like "an" correctly.
The previous poster didn't state that was the sole measure of an education's worth. But the sad fact is, if you can't pay off your student loans, your education is not worth much. A fancy diploma doesn't amount to a hill of beans when you owe six figures in student loan debt and can't find a job/can't find one that allows you to make loan payments. Pure joy of learning is pretty cold comfort when you're eating Ramen noodles for the 200th night in a row.
I don't quite understand why they are protesting NOW. The fee hike has been on the table for awhile now, hasn't it? Wouldn't some organization before the vote been more effective (that is to say, if any of this is effective at all)?
The professors were smart enough to protest a month ago.
"So rowdy, in fact, that the fuzz had to put a beat down on a few rapscallions, which is typical during protests that get unseemly whenever the police show up."
FTFY
looks like strikethrough operates differently in preview than post. top comment job again, *ist!
you are an angel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okwb61YhDOo&feature=player_embedded
32 percent fee increase = 32 percent more in student loans (indentured servitude) to pay off after university. this is just another reason china and other countries are kicking our ass. they have nearly fully subsidized public universities.
Ah, but not nearly as many (as a percent) Chinese attend university! Which leads us back to sfperson2000's point - we could easily maintain low tuition, so long as we limit the numbers of students who attend.
soo....somehow protesting and costing the cities and state more money in police OT will help the budget problem?
Live with it...classes and teachers will be gone. Just like how local gov employees are getting axed left and right. It's sucks, but it's necessary