If the state won't empty it's pockets, um...take it from the people?

From the AP:

"LOS ANGELES — University of California students will get a much larger tuition bill next year.

The Board of Regents today approved a 32 percent increase in undergraduate student fees, despite protests by hundreds of demonstrators outside the regents' meeting at UCLA.

By next fall, undergraduate fees will be boosted by $2,500, sending the average annual education cost at a UC campus to more than $10,000. That's triple the amount from a decade ago.

Regents say they had to raise fees because the cash-strapped state government can't meet the university's funding needs.

The decision came as hundreds of students chanted and marched outside the meeting hall to protest the measure. Some students also took over another UCLA building and chained the doors shut.http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8926394859057075477&postID=1901395826254507009

Police in riot gear kept an eye on the protesters."

According to Christian Haesemeyer:

"This is, by itself, an outrage. The regents have worked hard to privatize our university for some time, and now they see their chance.

In addition, it is also a tactical mistake if one is interested in recovering state funding. An increase like this hangs our allies in the legislature out to dry, and will almost certainly be used to justify further cuts - rinse, repeat.

We, the faculty, staff and students at UC, have to draw the line."