UC Berkeley Protest near Wheeler Hall

[tnguyen318]

These aint Berkeley students, they are SPECIAL ED FROM DOWN THE STREET!

[butterbreezy]

LOL how ironic...werent all these kids wearing Obama T shirts just a year or so ago?!? LOL... live by tax and spend, die by tax and spend...these are college students: someone needs to explain to them a simple balance sheet.

[Quiksilver209]

dont blame me, I voted for ron paul.

[dolphinr22]

"werent all" is a huge genaralization plus during Obama's start in the presidency the enormous increase fees weren't in place yet, students fight for their right of an affordable education there is nothing wrong about it

[LucyStag]

@butterbreezy I totally agree. But California is also going straight to education. How about they cut down all the people they put in jail?

[kcruthenchan]

This is not about entitlement... this is about fair fees. Consider students in their junior year who are now forced to pay 30% more for their education next year. There are bound to be many students who cannot afford this spiked increase in cost and will not be able to finish their schooling. It is just an unfortunate situation all around.

[PreparedCitizen]

It's called "go to another university" then.

[brianobx]

The reasons behind this, our overall economy, and the protesters action is the fact that we live in an entitlement society.

[brianobx]

Oh I never said it would be easy. Life isn't easy and this is just one more challenge. Time to act like grown ups and deal with it.

And No, I don't want to hear about how you already have it tough and all the difficulties you encounter in life.

That's life, tough and difficult.

[rumormater]

For homeless students, contact ACORN. You may be qualify for a no-cost no-pay mortgage loan. Sign up and ready for the Obama team!

Qualifications including carry posters, willing to travel by buses, good voice be able to get attention from 100 yards.

[bigfathippo53]

Good ridance lazy leftist students.

[dandelionpaws]

I went to school in the Midwest. I used to have to choose between paying rent or paying for my $100 school books. If coarse I chose the books. That means I was a homeless college student sleeping in abandoned buildings and under a bridge for my first three years. Higher education is broken in America. It's time to change it.

[CoffeeBlackness]

BAck in civil war days, the drummers all ways got it first.

[brianobx]

Get a job, make more money, pay for tuition. End of story.

[CoffeeBlackness]

Are there enough jobs available in the students' home sates (for breaks) and in Cali near the University? If so, then your argument would make sense and then only if the jobs were held for each student - that would actually be fair, like a placement service.

[jml4000]

Of course, because if you want a job, all you have to do is go to the job store and say you want a job. They're practically giving them away, especially in today's economy!! Do you want to be a lawyer, a neurosurgeon, or an astronout? And don't worry about balancing your workload between school and your new job- your new employer will be completely understanding and accomodate your needs as a dilligent student. It's that simple! Like you said, "end of story."

[AfterDinnerMint]

Getting to class only required five extra minutes to walk around the line.

[madebutante]

YOU GOT THE POWER! USE IT BABY!

[seanplaysmusic]

learn to fucking spell idot

[madebutante]

blame the budget cuts

[mattmand66]

So where exactly is the money to rehire workers and eliminate the tuition increase supposed to come from? Thin air?

[nvmcxzoiusae]

nope, the endowment and the californian govt.

[madebutante]

Since we will spending 3 trillion on an illegal war for profit:

"They're opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We're entitled to it," Pickens said of Iraq's oil. "Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars."

By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens

told Congress on Wednesday that U.S. energy companies are

entitled to some of Iraq's crude -

how bout some of that $, too?

[NEOnikolas]

some bastards' pockets.

[franciskelly200]

STUPID IMMATURE IDOTS; IF UR GONNA PROTEST DO IT LEGALLY; jeez no ONE COULD GET TO CLASS!!!

[xBruinBearx]

@franciskelly200 Francis, with your attitude, you belong at a private university, not cal.

[madebutante]

which class were you late for? how to be Compliant to Fascism 101?

[blankspace09]

Also, the tape and blockades were courtesy of the police department. You might have noticed the word "POLICE" emblazoned in bold letters on the yellow tape.

[CoffeeBlackness]

501 or 601, definitely a graduate course!