A Violent Shift
The protests over budget cuts to higher education in California have repeatedly featured civil disobedience in recent weeks, with numerous building takeovers and sit-ins. But the protests took a more violent turn Friday night with an attack on the home of the chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley.
Dozens of protesters -- apparently a mix of students and non-students -- rushed the home, smashed planters, and threw various objects, some of them aflame, at windows in the home.
Authorities arrested eight people, including two identified as Berkeley students, and charged them with rioting, threatening an education official, attempted burglary, attempted arson of an occupied building, felony vandalism, and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer. Many others who were present ran away.
The attack on the Berkeley chancellor's home comes amid a wave of protests at California's public colleges not only over budget cuts dictated by a collapsing state budget, but very much directed at college administrators, who are being accused of not doing enough to minimize the cuts or to reallocate resources to minimize their impact. [Inside Higher Ed]
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