Age trumps youth in UC tuition dispute

[Louisiana1976]

In recent days, students have been rallying and barricading themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent hike in tuition fees. Last Wednesday and Thursday, scuffles broke out between police and student protesters on UC campuses around the state, with dozens of students arrested and a few roughed up by eager cops. The protesters’ mood was combative, and they were boiling with anger that three days of protests had had little visible impact. But the students would be even angrier if they knew that the tuition increase, instead of funding essential services, was going toward securing cushy pensions for baby boomer university employees to the tune of $340 million a year.


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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/age_trumps_youth_in_uc_tuition_dispute_20091124/

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. How many employees? How "cushy"? Don't we usually demand that jobs have pensions?

Sorry, I'm not about to be outraged over something with this little information.

[anonymous171]

2. I hope they burn it down.

Education should be for all or none.

[bettyellen]

3. more baby boomer backlash to piss off the stupid younguns who think they'll never get old

[bluestateguy]

4. I think I'd be more bothered by the money the state spends on prisons

and they overpaid prison guards and their thug union. If any union could stand some good old fashioned Republican union busting, it would be the prison guard union.

Billions pissed away on warehousing non-violent drug offenders and hundreds of millions urinated away on health care for lifers like Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez and Richard Allen Davis.

[truedelphi]

5. Your reply reminds me of the other story here on DU today --

That of a California rancher. The kind soul is willing to do jail time rather than put the 30 people he is helping out on the streets!

That is a good $ 9,500 that could have gone to some better program than inflating the prisons and the guards and the budgets of all that.

To say nothing of the expenses that the rancher saved the local governments by taking in the homeless (Some of our homeless cost as much as one million a year to be Out On The Streets - until they are sick and in the ICU, or on a police report and all.)

We live in an incredibly backwards nation.

[madrchsod]

6. fuck truthdig and their pissie article

"cushy pensions for baby boomer university employees"...i guess those "baby boomer's" are`t entitled to their pensions...california`s tuition is still cheaper than illinois`s and the weather is better.