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The Daily Show
Jon Stewart: 'Pepper Spray Has Become America's New Car Horn'
Jon Stewart
The Daily Show on Monday returned from a short break to take on a hot new story: pepper spray sweeping the nation.
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University Of California Davis
'Occupy' California Protesters Call For Strike To Shutdown College Campuses
Protesters at the University of California, Davis
[Update: 2:26 pm ET]
Occupy Wall Street protesters in California are planning to shut down University of California campuses on Monday.
According to a post on the Occupy Wall Street website, the UC Board of Regents on Monday will propose "drastic" budget reductions and a massive increase of fees. And the protesters are calling for action.
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University Of California Davis
UC Davis Students Reflect: 'It's Going To Be A Really Different Campus'
U.C. Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
UC Davis student government president Adam Thongsavat was in a meeting on Friday when he received an urgent text message: riot police were on the campus mall, pepper spraying a group of sitting protesters. You have to get down here, the message read.
When he arrived on the quad, people were yelling and had their cameras out. Some were crying, others were coughing.Thongsavat went up to a couple campus police lieutenants -- including Lt. John Pike, one officer implicated in the pepper spraying -- and asked what was going on and who gave the order. "It wasn't us," one of the officers replied. Pike was silent.
"I took a deep breath, and said, 'It's going to be a really different campus," Thongsavat told TPM by phone Tuesday evening.
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University Of California Davis
Amazon Users Post Rave 'Reviews' Of UC Davis Pepper Spray
By now, if you've been following the news out of UC Davis, you've probably seen the internet meme of campus Police Lt. John Pike pepper spraying his way through art history (if not, click here).
But now that Fox News has declared pepper spray a "food product, essentially," the good people who post amateur reviews on Amazon.com have weighed in. "Once I realized that spraying whipped cream into my mouth was both bland and fattening, I had to try this out," one reviewer wrote. "WARNING - Not a condiment!!!" another reviewer wrote. "NOMNOMNOMNOM," yet another reviewer wrote, adding that the pepper spray is "great on salads, burgers, and pizza."
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University Of California Davis
The Big Picture: University Of California Students Face Skyrocketing Tuition Costs
Students rally at University of California, Davis on November 21, 2011.
The shocking images of police officers pepper-spraying sitting protesters have been the focus of attention on the University of California, Davis, this week. But lost in the aftermath of that incident is the reality of skyrocketing tuition in the University of California system, which the students were protesting.
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