Fourth-year Tom Pazo requested and recently received public documents detailing $6,000 UCSC spent to hire an outsourced photographer and videographer to document student activists at the Walk Out to Your Education on May 18 through 19, 2010.

Twenty masked persons took over UCSC’s Graduate Student Commons around 5 p.m. today, protesting the measures taken by the UC Board of Regents to deal with a budget crisis. Pay-cuts, furloughs, cut classes and privatization are among the issues protesters inside and outside the building wanted to bring to the fore. The occupants and their supporters are willing, they say, to stay as long as they possibly can.