The L.A. Times reports:
University of California regents took a symbolic step Thursday in an effort to avoid or reduce the 9.4% increase in undergraduate student fees that university officials have said they anticipate next year.
The UC system's budget request to the state Legislature for the 2009-2010 school year originally projected a $662 fee increase, which would have hiked in-state undergraduate fees to an average of $8,670, including some campus charges but not including room and board. The original budget proposal also suggested that some graduate and professional school fees would increase by larger amounts.
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In another matter, seven labor union officials were arrested at the UC regents meeting at a UC San Francisco facility Thursday for refusing to end their loud chanting, demanding that UC give substantial pay increases to its service workers. The seven were cited with trespassing and failure to disperse and were expected to be released, UC police said. The union's 8,500 members, including custodians and food service workers, are deadlocked with UC in talks for a new contract.
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