UC students occupy buildings to protest fee hike
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.
The occupation of a campus building at the University of California, Santa Cruz meanwhile continued.
Forty-one people inside UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall were arrested on suspicion of trespassing around 5 p.m. Friday, said Claire Holmes, a spokeswoman for the university. The group, which included university students, was cited and released around 7:30 p.m to cheers from supporters outside.
"Our whole goal was to make sure this was safe," Holmes said.
The demonstrators had occupied the building 14 hours earlier to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and job and program cuts.
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