Budget crisis stirs college campuses decry budget cuts - Sarah Rohrs, Times-Herald

With one student strapped into a medical stretcher to symbolically show how the state budget crisis is hurting higher education, Vallejo's California Maritime Academy students, faculty and workers lent their voices to a nationwide protest Thursday. Marches, strikes, teach-ins and walkouts were planned in the March 4th National Day of Action for Public Education, organized to draw attention to the impact of state budget cuts on colleges and universities.