Saturday, October 10, 2015

Blog 4 - A Tale of Two Campuses : Berkley and Davis Respond to Occupy Movements

Seung Joon Lee

ASA 002

10/10/15

As a college student who goes to the University of California, I am not very happy with the soaring price of college tuition; it's not like the tuition was inexpensive before it started increasing. American universities are far more expensive than those in any other countries. When it costs too much to learn something more advanced, many people cannot afford to continue learning. When people cannot afford to continue learning, they get frustrated and upset. When they get frustrated and upset, they sometimes do a thing called protesting. A protest called "Occupy Movements" happened both in UC Davis and UC Berkeley for the same reason: the tuition is too high for middle class students to afford. However, the outcomes were different. UC Berkeley listened to the cries of the students and gave them the solution such as a middle class family won't pay more than "15 percent of [its] annual income for all expenses." On the other hand UC Davis blamed the students for damaging school properties and ignored the students' demands. Why was UC Berkeley more compromising than UC Davis?

Question: I love my school so don't get me wrong but does the way of responding to such incident affect the rankings of the Universities? (other than just GPA)
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