The day after SF State students were arrested for occupying the Business building, police arrested 65 UC Berkeley students, who were staging an occupation in Wheeler Hall on campus. Students responded by staging a protest at the Chancellor's residence, causing property damage.

Students had been occupying Wheeler Hall for four days to protest janitorial layoffs and increased tuition. The occupation came on the heels of the Nov. 20 protests that drew over 1,000 supporters to protest the budget cuts. Wheeler Hall was occupied at that time as well.

The California Faculty Association issued a statement of solidarity with students from both campuses on Dec. 9, before the walk on UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's house. They declared student actions as "symptomatic of a whole generation of college students in California who feel betrayed by their leaders who have failed to properly support San Francisco State, Berkeley and the other institutions in the CSU and UC systems."

They went on to echo student frustrations over public higher education in California.

"These institutions need administrators who are willing to stand up for their systems and lawmakers that will fight for funding California's future, not cut it," they said.

On Dec. 13, some UC Berkeley students took it a step further. In response to the recent arrests and allegations of police brutality, students charged on Chancellor Birgeneau's house and broke at least one window and several potted plants.

Eight students were arrested in the incident.

Many people came out to show their support for Chancellor Birgeneau and his family while condemning the actions of the students, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, UC President Mark Yudof and more than 80 professors.

"This outrageous behavior has nothing to do with legitimate dissent," said Robert M. Berdahl, president of the Association of American Universities and former UC Berkeley chancellor, in a press release. "These are criminal activities intended to intimidate and terrorize, not to protest, and law enforcement needs to treat them as such."

The university is still investigating the allegations of police brutality from Nov. 20