After the University of California at Berkeley announced budget cuts to its ethnic-studies department, over 100 students occupied a building, leading to a ten-hour standoff with campus police, broken windows, and 46 arrests. When the university offered a compromise proposal, six students declared a hunger strike, and 83 more were arrested after eight days of demonstrations. Berkeley responded by promising eight full-time professorships in the field, a "multicultural student center," $100,000 for a race-and-gender-studies center, and an "ethnic-studies mural."

The student government at the University of Wisconsin at Madison passed a bill allowing student fees to be used to bail out student protesters jailed for radical activism and civil disobedience. Radicals arguing in favor of the measure spoke of how "cool" it would be to have thousands of dollars to "play with" in case of arrest.

[Ed.: Under a proposal by two Yale law professors, the federal government would give every 18-year-old high school graduate $80,000.]

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