See, this is what USED to happen during these campus protests before OWS became a thing.What they should do now is go to the school, tell them they are willing to sit down with the school and decide which salaries are too high, which services are unnecessary, and chop the budget down so they can reduce tuition and meet their goals. If the school doesn't meet with them or doesn't enact the changes the students propose then the students merely need to say that they have another group of protesters who are willing and able to be recorded and broadcast while the police remove them again.
- College kids would protest
- The administration would send a delegate out to meet with them
- Most kids would leave, feeling that they have been heard.
- Anyone who stayed after the meeting would then be told they'd be expelled if they continued or they cops would get the stragglers.
- Changes would happen or another protest would happen.
The problem here is that the people in charge aren't bothering to hear their concerns OR do anything about them... they just call the cops so they don't have to deal with it, because they don't want to do anything with tuition concerns. They feel the tuition changes are justified because it allows them to build new facilities and hire new talent in an attempt to make the school more prestigious. There's a sort of "arms race" going on between colleges, now that kids have more choices in colleges. This has lead to massive tuition increases.
So really, the issue at hand is that there is a breakdown in the process and student protestors don't have any other option except cause as much of a scene as they can.