NORTHRIDGE : Cal State Students Protest Fee Hikes, Budget Cuts
Several hundred Cal State Northridge students marched through campus Wednesday, chanting slogans and shaking their fists over fee hikes and state budget cuts for higher education.
But the noontime march--billed as the centerpiece of a planned two-day “shutdown” of the CSUN campus--failed to capture the interest of more than a fraction of the school’s 28,000 students.
Several false fire alarms set off during the morning sent many disgruntled students out of classes who said they did not want to participate in the protest.
Student organizers had hoped large numbers of students would either boycott classes or persuade their teachers to hold the classes outdoors so they could hear speeches about this year’s 8.8% cut in state support to the 20-campus California State University system.
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