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UC-Santa Cruz Students Pepper-sprayed at Protest

October 20, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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Police used batons and pepper spray to defend themselves against student protesters Wednesday, a University of California-Santa Cruz spokesman tells the Daily Bruin. Students timed their protests to coincide with a California Board of Regents meeting on their campus. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the protest organizers' beef with the regents includes high student fees and low minority retention rates.

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