Budget cuts, rape culture and tuition hikes were the hottest topics at Wednesday's protest by The Tampa Bay Chapter of Students for A Democratic Society, as they marched from the Marshall Student Center to the Patel Center where they hoped to speak with university President Judy Genshaft.
Citing Genshaft’s salary of $800,000 a year, SDS aimed to “chop from the top,” saying that if budget cuts are so necessary, they should be taken from the financial comfortable administration.
But the four-hour protest, which took place mostly in the bottom floor of the Patel Center, focused largely on the 15 percent tuition increases in previous years and 11.8 percent increases among Florida universities last year.
This article appears in Mar 7-13, 2013.