These are the reformist demands of people who have chosen to attach themselves to UCSC. Not to sound like a UC apologist, but these people have chosen to attend, and most are paying tuitions. And UCSC is actually behaving as universities are meant to behave in this society.

Idealistic demands for equal opportunity, democracy, justice, and peace are utterly impossible in this society. Equal opportunity? The economy may admit a few thousand more university-conditioned people into their upper or middle classes, but the only equality this will offer is equality of possession and attachment. The regents would never allow democracy, but even if this were achieved, what would it look like? A bureaucratic republic of students? Majorities of several thousands dictating terms to minorities of several less thousands? The same goes for justice. Who will determine justice in a university? Hopefully not the campus police, or the activist police. And peace? In a society that wages perpetual war? (Terrorism, communism, drugs, poverty, anarchists, foreigners, emancipated blacks, etc.) Every part of the establisment, even the ivory tower of higher education, is bound to support these wars, in one way or another.

But ye probably aren't going to be convinced, because ye have pre-set minds and ideologies. The biggest problem though, is that THE REGENTS AREN'T GOING TO FUCKING LISTEN!