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California’s campuses have been as quiet as you’d expect over the break, but the winter quarter begins tomorrow at UC Irvine, and activists there are planning to start the new term up the way the old one ended.

Tomorrow at noon at the flagpoles at UCI, there’s going to be a rally against the UC fee increase. As the event’s Facebook page puts it, “many of us just paid our Winter Quarter fees; but with the new fee hike going into effect, some of our friends and classmates couldn’t,” and the protest is intended to make it clear that “we expect our administrators to do everything they can to reverse the cuts and ease the burden on poor students and students of color and their families.”

The protest organizers will be posting updates to Twitter at @takebackuci.