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“There is a certain stigma that comes with being from Berkeley, and I’m proud of that stigma.”
–New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita, talking politics with the New York Times.
Students at the University of California at Davis are occupying their campus library this weekend, and UCD’s chancellor has announced that instead of disrupting the occupation she’ll keep the library officially open all weekend long.
The Shields library “study-in and slumber party” has been in the works for quite a while, but Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi’s statement came just one day before its scheduled kickoff.
In a response posted to a UC Davis activist blog shortly after Katehi’s announcement, study-in supporters stressed that the concession was not a result of discussions or negotiations between the university and the action’s organizers. It was, instead, a reflection of Katehi’s “recognition of what will happen this weekend,” and of the fact “that she cannot stop it.”
The Davis study-in, like several of California’s fall occupations, boasts a solid lineup of events and activities. You can learn more from the Our University blog, or from the @OurUCD Twitter feed.
Correction: Katehi is the chancellor of UC Davis, not its president. I always screw that up.
studentactivism.net 
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