65 Demonstrators Arrested at Berkeley as Protests Continue

Police officers today arrested 65 protesters who were occupying an academic building on the University of California at Berkeley campus, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The protesters, who were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing and transported to a county jail, had planned to hold an all-night concert in the building on Thursday, the night before final exams were to begin, Berkeley officials said. The Berkeley arrests came a day after the police arrested 25 protesters to end a similar occupation at San Francisco State University and several weeks after students staged a wave of protests across the University of California system to protest a 32-percent tuition increase, among other things.