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Protestors at UCSC Release List of Demands

Students at UC Santa Cruz have occupied Kerr Hall and Kresge Town Hall.  The students are upset about a 32% tuition hike approved by the Board of Regents.  On Thursday night the students released a list of demands.

1)      Repeal of the 32% fee increase

2)      Stop all current construction on campus

3)      UC funds and budget are made transparent

4)      Verbal and written commitment to Master Plan

5)      Total Amnesty to all people occupying buildings and involved in student protest concerning budget cuts including: Doug G., and Bryan Glasscock and Olivia Egan-Rudolph

6)      Keep all resource centers open: E Squared, Women's Resource Center, and all other diversity centers

7)      Keep the campus child-care center open

8)      Repeal cuts to the Community Studies Field Program

9)      Re-funding the CMMU field studies coordinator positions

10)  Get verbal and written agreement from Admins to shut-down campus for one day for the purpose of educating students on the budget cuts

11)   Said support for AB656

12)   Said commitment to work-study for all who are eligible

13)   Making UCSC a safe campus for all undocumented (AB540) students and workers

14)   Keeping LALS professors Guillermo Delgado and Susan Jonas

15)   Repeal all furloughs to all campus employees, renege the 15% cut in labor time for custodians

16)   Stop the gutting of funding for fellowships and TAships and the re-instatement of TAs who lost their jobs due the budget cuts from this quarter

17)   Re-prioritizing funding so that essential student services i.e. the library get adequate funding to ensure regular library hours

18)   Censure Mark Yudof

19)   Un-arming UC police of all weapons including tasers

20)  No SCPD police on allowed on campus

21)   An apology from the regents and the state

22)   Creating a free and permanent organizing space on campus for student activists and organizers (first option : Kresge Town Hall)

23)   Due process for students:

1. trial by peers
2. constitutional rights for students tried under the UC Judicial System

24)  Making rent affordable for Family Student Housing, ensuring that the price does not exceed that of operating costs

Long Term:

1)      No student fees

2)      Return to Master Plan

3)      Abolition of Regents positions

4)      Abolition of all student debts

5)      Tripling of funds from the State to public universities

UCSC administration released this statement about the tuition hike and the student protest.