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Friday, May 18, 2012


By David Siders
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — University of California regents warned Wednesday of more potential tuition increases, while student protesters again disrupted a meeting of the university's governing board.

The UC system, which raised tuition last year by about 18 percent, is considering a 6 percent tuition increase this year.

Frustrated students, who have clashed with administrators over fees and service cuts for months, forced regents to break unexpectedly from the public portion of their meeting when about 18 protesters wearing prison garb started marching in a circle in the audience.

The students at the meeting, at the Sacramento Convention Center, complained they had been "sentenced to debt."

From Wikipedia:
Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.

Mydans became devoted to photography while in college at Boston University. While working on the Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm Security Administration.

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