Local News Report on the Protest of the UC Regents Meeting

A university official calls the action 'painful.' Protests at UCLA lead to 16 arrests. [Originally Published in the La Times - May 15, 2008] Despite angry protests from students that led to 16 arrests at UCLA, California's two public universities took actions Wednesday to charge higher fees for education in the fall. The trustees of the Cal State University system voted to raise annual undergraduate student fees 10%, or $276. A key committee of the University of California regents approved a 7.4%, or $490, raise per year for undergraduates that is expected to be endorsed by the full Board of Regents today. Student expenses