"For the last several years, the debate has been what are we going to cut, but we need to change the conversation to who is going to pay for public education," said Kyle Arnone, a protest organizer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a graduate student in sociology.
Kyle Arnone, a doctoral student from UCLA who attended the meeting to urge the CSU trustees to sign the protesters' pledge, said he saw police use pepper spray on protesters. CSU officials confirmed it was used.