Many are currently organizing at the base for a new and fueled movement against the implementation of Prop. 209. Earlier this morning, the President of the nine-campus University of California system sent out a directive of compliance to each Chancellor. Included were instructions to no longer use race, ethnicity, sex or national origin as one of the supplemental criteria used to select admitted students from the pool of eligible students. However, such an occupation is against University policy. We are concerned about the students' well being.
Students believe that their action is only the beginning of a mass movement to redirect the public.
They don't need sympathy from the administration. They, in fact, demand that the University administration not comply with the provisions outlined by the new law. The occupation is intended to go on until negotiations with the University take place. Students continue to occupy the campanile tower at UC Berkeley. The takeover will be the focus of campus organizing in an effort to cultivate future plans against the implementation of Prop. 209.