From an article in yesterday's New York Times;SACRAMENTO — With his state strapped and his legacy looming, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed on Wednesday to greatly reduce the amount of money California spends on its prisons and to funnel that sum to the state's higher education system instead[...]
Those protests on the U.C. campuses were the tipping point; the governor's chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, said in an interview after the speech. Our university system is going to get the support it deserves.
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It's really something when the governor's chief of staff explicitly says the protests were the 'tipping point'. This is very good news and the message is simple: protest works!
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