The University of California Davis made headlines last year after a group of student protesters were pepper-sprayed. You've probably seen the video. The incident went viral and became a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Whether the pepper-spraying was right or wrong isn't a topic for this website. Why some of the students were protesting in the first place, however, seems relevant, since it has to do with one of many people's largest lifetime expenses: college tuition.
Students were protesting for all kinds of reasons, many of which you might disagree with. Most, however, were protesting a fact that I think most people find outrageous: Tuition at the University of California system has doubled over the last five years, and is set to nearly double again by 2016. In 2006, tuition at a UC school ran roughly $7,000 a year. By 2016, it could be as high as $22,000 a year. I'd probably be upset, too.
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