UC may face cuts too

ABout 1,000 university students on Sunday held a demonstration at UCLA's Bruin Plaza to protest Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts to higher education, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The demostration comes a week after UC officials considered plans to limit freshman unless the state provides more funding, while the California State University system agreed to cut enrollment by 10,000.

The governor's proposed cuts, they said, would result in higher tuition, lower enrollment, larger class sizes and fewer student services.

"Students are being shortchanged," David Kirui, 21, a fourth-year undergraduate from UC Berkeley, told the crowd in Bruin Plaza. "We are sick and tired of the budget being balanced on the backs of students."

Schwarzenegger recently recommended a $65-million cut from the $3 billion in state money the UC system expected for the 2008-09 school year.