Protesters block traffic from entering UCSC via the West entrance
Students perform a short play, articulating the controversy and hypocritical nature of the budget cuts and fee hikes.
Students sit and watch from a hill near the east entrance, as the crowd gathers to protest against the budget cuts and fee hikes.
Students gather around speakers during the general assembly at 12:00 at the East entrance.
A student representative from the new UC movement DJ's the general assembly at the East entrance at UCSC.
Students, faculty, and workers across the state protested budget cuts, tuition hikes, job cuts, and a myriad of other budget related issues centered around the management of the public education system.
At UC Santa Cruz, protesters effectively shut down the campus, blocking both entrances to traffic, starting at 4:30 A.M. Throughout the day they stayed at both the West and East entrances prohibiting people from going onto campus. They also blocked the bike path, as well as tried to prevent workers walking onto campus up through Pogonip.
Throughout the day the UC sent out e-mails warning commuters of the possible danger they might face if they tried to get on to campus. One of the e-mails stated that students were armed with knives and clubs, but instances of such weapons being brandished were denied by students.
Earlier this morning, protest activity at both campus entrances rendered our main campus inaccessible to vehicle traffic. Reports of protesters carrying clubs and knives, smashing a car windshield with a metal pipe, denying a resident of faculty/student housing the right to exit the campus, and keeping a campus health care worker from getting to work, escalated this morning’s protest into behavior that is disruptive, intimidating and destructive.
Some of the other actions mentioned by the e-mail were also denied, but the smashing of a car windshield after the car supposedly ran over a students foot, was confirmed.
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DAYUM those are some sick pictures!