San Diego
About 200 UC San Diego students gathered Thursday in support of the university’s decision Wednesday to drop its investigation of a student accused of trying to start a campus riot.
Russell Andalcio, a Third College student, was cleared of the accusation that he told an angry mob of UCSD students to attack campus police.
The university had alleged that Andalcio urged the attack after campus police had broken up a scuffle that followed a speech by Bishop Desmond Tutu.
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