CCNY staged a student-faculty walkout on April 22 and a peaceful protest. On April 22 at 2 p.m., roughly 250 City College of New York students joined together with faculty and walked out of their classes in protest of the CUNY tuition hikes, budget cuts and layoffs. The walkout was organized by the Students for Educational Rights along with Students in Media and sponsored by International Socialist Organization, Spoke ’n’ Heard Poetry Club and CCNY Radical Women and Campus Antiwar Network.