<p>Still there. Because the once a semester protest has worked soooooooooooooo well for the past 4 semesters. What a disgrace. And a mess. Students need to get to class.</p>
<p>lol .</p>
<p>Cal is known for the Free Speech Movement, which originated on campus and inspired thousands of students, members of faculty, and people everywhere. Though I agree protests can be over the top (I almost got bowled over walking through Sproul Plaza yesterday!) I think it’s fair and somewhat commendable for Berkeley students to keep exercising that right of free speech on campus.</p>
<p>they still there or wha?</p>
<p>The administration is pathetic for even negotiating with these morons. Now, apparently, no one is going to face any charges–police or university–after all this crap. What a joke.</p>
<p>lol .</p>
<p>left about 20-25 minutes ago? finally came out of the building.
exercising right of free speech should not include pulling fire alarms and disrupting midterms/classes or taking over buildings so that classes get canceled. And really, what does taking over a building (and not even a good one at that) do for your point? Go to Sproul Plaza and sit there. Go to the Chancellor’s place and protest there.</p>
<p>apparently there’s a new agreement we can learn about on the 10 o clock news!!</p>
<p>so dumb so dumb so dumb so</p>
<p>Haha wow pulling fire alarms? Alright that’s ridiculous…</p>
<p>Not to mention isn’t it a federal offense? </p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Yeah they’re all down now.</p>
<p>It is just annoying how the news has to make it seem like these protests are supported by all students… like really it’s 8 people up on a building and one obnoxious girl with a megaphone. The rest of the ‘crowd’ is mostly just freshmen watching. Do we really need 5 helicopters hovering over campus all day for this?</p>
<p>My favorite part though was when protesters started complaining that the police didn’t care about their safety. I kept thinking, well *** you’re on a freaking ledge, you’re not putting yourself in a great position for them to help you.</p>
<p>I think protests are great and are needed with the UC situation, but there has been something really irrational (and disruptive in a non-progressive way) with the ones that have taken place at Berkeley.</p>
<p>agreed with flutterfly. protesters are definitely not representative of the student body here.</p>
<p>protesters=hipsters</p>
<p>this is not meant to be construed as a compliment in any way.</p>
<p>seems like a alot of people in physics 8b dont seem to mind too much though, lol.</p>
<p>God I don’t understand how people can be so whiney.</p>
<p>actually i love it when protests are staged. it gives us something to be excited about and talk about. fingers crossed for more of these. 
let’s starts some riots, trash some windows, break into the chancellor’s mansion, or something.</p>
<p>The tuition protests strike me as rather selfish.</p>
<p>^maybe selfish in that these protests disrupt midterms without considering consequences for other students,</p>
<p>but NOT selfish in their inherent purpose to voice discontent with the fee hikes. </p>
<p>ha.</p>
<p>Their method of voicing discontent is naive.</p>
<p>Imagine if you were one of the kids taking midterms when the fire alarms were pulled.</p>
<p>Those who didn’t study at all would be thanking everything and those who pulled an all-nighter/skipped classes to study would probably be raging.</p>