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UC Regents coming to UCSC!
the infamous Regents of the University of California will be touring the UCSC campus this wednesday and thursday (October 18-19,2006). everyone is encouraged to come to the action being held at BAYTREE PLAZA on WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18 at 2:45. there will be a march, rally & action to protest the undemocratic ways of the Regents. it is their legal obligation to provide a 15 minute comment period during their visit, which is going to be held at the new Humanities building near Cowell College on wednesday at 3:45. As many of us have already experienced, the Regents don't give a fuck what we have to say and the 15 minutes is a farce put on to justify their existence. so why don't we make our voices heard and stage our own speak out among students, workers, faculty and community members to highlight the unacceptable behavior of the Regents.
what we're going to address:
•irresponsable and destructive expansion of campus
•militarized research in the service of war
•unfair labor practices and low wages
•cuts to academic programs
•poor outreach and retention practices
•increased tuition
•over-crowded classes
•unwelcoming environment for AB540 students
what we're going to address:
•irresponsable and destructive expansion of campus
•militarized research in the service of war
•unfair labor practices and low wages
•cuts to academic programs
•poor outreach and retention practices
•increased tuition
•over-crowded classes
•unwelcoming environment for AB540 students
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How can you be protesting increased tuition, and also protesting no expansion and low wages? They are connected; the U needs more money to pay people, and we have to expand or charge more to do so.
Considering the overbloated salaries and benefits of UC administrators, as well as their over 700 million in reported profits, no, we don't need to raise tuition to fund what we want to fund. It's a question of PRIORITIES!
Please, if you are going to assert that the facts should be checked, please explain how cutting salaries by, oh let’s say half, would amount to the money needed for all the things you are advancing?
Of course you wont be able to, because it wont even begin to cover it. The reality is, the school needs to charge more and expand more if you want people paid better and to have programs expanded. Please don’t fall back on the same falsified logic for future arguments.
Of course you wont be able to, because it wont even begin to cover it. The reality is, the school needs to charge more and expand more if you want people paid better and to have programs expanded. Please don’t fall back on the same falsified logic for future arguments.
dude... didn't you notice the '$700million' in profits that was mentioned? Don't be a fool for the sake of being oppositional. And yeah, if you gave every chancellor (from all 10 UCs) a quarter of what they're making (so, say 100 grand rather than 400), that'd be 3 million right there.
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