Section 2
Week 4
As UC Davis students, we are all familiar with the Occupy Movement in 2011 in which students protested the tuition hikes. What I was unaware of, was this movement was sweeping the nation from the UC system all the way to New York. After reading "Fighting Privatization, Occupy Activists at CUNY and UC Kick into High Gear" by Josh Eidelson, I was shocked to uncover that many other schools are experiencing the same injustice. As UC Davis, along with CUNY, were founded as public universities, they should remain in this way. Students are outraged at the constant uphill battle they are facing and continue to fight for their rights, which they have rightfully been doing. All they want to do is save, "the public-public space, public interest, public institutions from publicly-appointed privatizers." We all deserve the education we have been promised when we registered and should not allow that to be taken away. Some think that privatization is inevitable, but I would like to disagree. To stop the constant protests, why can't administration finally listen?
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