BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- University of California-Berkeley protesters who occupied a campus building to protest skyrocketing tuitions have been arrested and removed, observers said.
Police on Friday escorted 40 protesters out of UC-Berkeley's Wheeler Hall, 11 hours after they had barricaded themselves into the facility to draw attention to a 32 percent jump in tuition instituted by the school's Board of Regents to help plug a $535 million budget gap, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.