Reduced services. Shrinking programmes. Rising tuition fees. These are the signs of an ever more dire budget situation at the University of California, which has suffered years of state funding cutbacks. Discomfort spread to the boardroom on 28 November, when student protesters at four campuses temporarily shut down a teleconference of the University of California regents, the body that sets policy and budgets for the ten-campus statewide system.
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