UC Fee Hike Plan Passes (32%!); 14 Arrested in Massive Protests

UC Fee Hike Plan Passes; 14 Arrested in Massive Protests


LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A regents committee has approved a 32 percent boost in student fees at University of California campuses, sending the proposal to the full board for review.

The vote Wednesday came amid a chaotic hearing at UCLA in which campus police arrested 14 protesters and monitored scores of other protesters outside the meeting.

The meeting was closed to visitors after repeated outbursts by students and union members.

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For undergraduate students, the proposal would increase mandatory fees by more than $2,500, or 32 percent, by the 2010-11 school year, with some increases taking effect in spring of 2010.

Graduate programs would also see fee hikes. The system faces a $535 million budget gap this year that could expand to more than $600 million for the next fiscal year, part of the fallout from the state's funding shortfall.

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undoing all the things that made them an economic powerhouse 50 years ago, because a bunch of idiots don't want to pay for a prosperous society.