BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The occupation of a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts has ended peacefully.
UC Berkeley spokeswoman Claire Holmes says 41 demonstrators who had barricaded themselves inside Wheeler Hall were arrested on suspicion of trespassing around 5 p.m. Friday. The group, which included university students, was cited and released a little more than two hours later.
The demonstrators had occupied the building on Friday morning to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and job and program cuts.
They were demanding laid-off custodial workers be rehired and amnesty for anyone arrested in the protest.
A group of students also rallied outside the building.
