Several hundred people gathered yesterday outside the office of Denice Denton, on Day One of her new job as Chancellor at the University of California Santa Cruz. The Student and Worker Coalition for Justice, an ad-hoc group on campus, organized the rally to highlight, what they say are misguided budget priorities and hiring practices throughout the UC system. FSRN's Vinny Lombardo reports.

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The notions of religion are different from those of society. The Islamic Religion is much more fair to women, than the back-wards notions of society.
A lot of injustice was heaped upon women in our Islamic world, and usually religion is the accused, but I do not see it as the real reason.

At the center of the controversy were upside down pink triangles posted inside of classrooms.

A pink triangle was worn by prisoners in Nazi Germany whose only "crime" was being born homosexual. It has been adopted by the GLBTI movement both in memory of oppression in the past and as a symbol of hope for a better present and future.

On February 7th, there was a School Borad Meeting at Scotts Valley High School in response to complaints made by Don D'Andrea, a parent of a SVHS student. D'Andrea feels that posters inside of classrooms with sayings such as, "Safe Person, Safe Safe" and "Respect All Families" are discriminatory towards heterosexual students.

Here are a few extra audio samples of the hearing on tolerance at SVH.