<p>Students</a>, professors to protest education cutbacks - CNN.com</p>
<p>Evidently what started in California regarding budget cuts and tuition hikes at public colleges has tapped a chord across the country, with protests occurring at public and private colleges. Professors also weigh in with how these cuts affect their work, and the impact on students who take many years to graduate, register for undesired courses, take on more debt, work several jobs concurrent with college... and otherwise cope with tuition hikes.</p>
<p>Does anyone have feedback from campus on today's national event?</p>
<p>Hadn’t heard about it until I read this thread. Might be because I’m at a private school and a grad student, though.</p>
<p>Students at Berkeley today took over Sather Gate which is a main entrance to Sproul Plaza at the heart of the campus. They climbed on top and draped tarps and sheets to block the entrance. Chanting students are everywhere and fire alarms are being pulled in several buildings. In the one class DD had today the teacher wore a shirt that said “teaching in protest” and a student burst into the classroom chanting something akin to “protest today, go to class tomorrow,” until he saw the teacher’s shirt and then he left.</p>
<p>DD is frustrated by the cancellation and disruption of classes, feeling that the cut backs have limited education enough and the disruptions only make a bad situation worse. She says everyone supports the ideology behind the protests but many are sick of the tactics.</p>