Chants of “Whose university? Our university!” broke up a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday as dozens of University of California students, alumni, faculty, and staff protested $300 million in budget cuts and a 32 percent tuition hike.  University police arrested fourteen of the 100 protesters on charges of civil disobedience.

The protestors presented themselves at the Regents meeting that morning on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus, where UC President Mark Yudof proposed his plan to account for a $753 million budget shortfall.

UC Santa Cruz student David Patida, yelled, “You’re incompetent!” at Yudof as speaker after speaker expressed outrage at the plan.

Yudof has come under fire for his proposal, which would increase student tuition to over $10,000 next year for the first time.

Recent UC Berkeley graduate Jillian Marks, one of those arrested, said the tuition increase comes on top of faculty and staff layoffs and a system-wide furlough, which requires academic and university employees to take 10 to 26 days off for the year.

Additionally, Marks voiced her concerns regarding the proposed 15 percent mid-year student fee increase for this academic year and the following 15 percent fee increase for 2010-11.

"It's going to explode pretty soon, if it hasn't already," said UC-Berkeley student-body president Will Smelko. "We need to take drastic measures."

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