Berkeley fee protest turns rowdy

Source: sfgate.com Posted By: Jacky S...5417 days ago

A late-night protest against fee hikes at UC Berkeley turned violent early this morning when a crowd of about 200 people lit trash can fires, smashed at least one store's windows, occupied a university building and clashed with police, officials said.

The protest began as an open-air dance party in Sproul Plaza, officials said, but at 11 p.m. took a different turn when about a dozen people broke into a shuttered former library called Durant Hall just north of the plaza and strung up a banner reading....

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