Students Occupy UC Berkeley Admissions Office
On Friday, May 11, thirty people, including black, Latina/o and other underrepresented minority students who were rejected admission to UC-Berkeley and UCLA, began occupying UC Berkeley’s undergraduate admissions office. They were committed to remaining until there is a concrete change in UC Berkeley’s admissions policy, which admits dramatically low numbers of Latina/o, black, and other underrepresented minority students, who comprise half of California’s high-school graduates but only 21.9% of this [...]