CSU trustees raise tuition as students protest

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Source: SF Chronicle

California State University trustees raised tuition by 9 percent today, even as CSU police used pepper spray and clashed violently with protesters who had been escorted from the university's Long Beach headquarters.

A glass door shattered when protesters tried to get back into the building and police inside pushed back. One officer was sent to the hospital, and four protesters, including three CSU students, were arrested, CSU officials said.

The trustees raised tuition for the second time this year, voting 9-to-6 for the increase. They made the decision in a room by themselves after exiting an auditorium where protesters from Refund California - a coalition of students, labor, activists and others aligned with the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement - had interrupted proceedings.

CSU spokeswoman Claudia Keith said state law lets public officials conduct business outside of a main meeting room, as long as non-disruptive members of the public can attend.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/16/BA2L1M001V.DTL

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Meanwhile:
- The president of Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) makes $350k/year.
- Cal State chancellor Charles Reed has gotten pay raises EVERY year even when tuition rose, for example in 2007 "" and raked in nearly $400k in 2010. From the same source: "Sixty-five administrators in 2010 earned $200,000 or higher, while 2,248 earned $100,000 or higher. In 2009, 80 administrators earned at least $200,000, while 2,977 earned $100,000 or higher."
- San Diego State's new president got his salary raised to $400k/year despite Gov. Jerry Brown opposing.

There was a mass protest at my CSU campus today.

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1. The students are getting fucked by greed

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2. I wish the profs would strike until administrator salaries went down.

Not only are these bastards stealing from the students, they`re stealing from professors`salaries and research funds.

The upper administration of a university is as useless as the CEOs of a corporation, and every prof knows this.

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3. Cost

I wonder what the professors are making and if they'll get a raise also

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4. The rich vote for more money for themselves? Amazing.

This is how, and why, representative democracy ends.