It was a beautiful, summerlike day in Beverly Hills when CSU faculty, students and staff members disembarked buses last Thursday to rally outside the Four Seasons hotel. Our purpose: bring attention to CSU Trustee Bill Hauck's failure to advocate for the university.
Donning caps, gowns and signs lambasting Hauck's anti-faculty, anti-student agenda, the crowd amped up the decibel level surrounding the exclusive hotel, where Hauck was hosting a luncheon with his high-powered business colleagues, including the governor of California.
The crowd chanted from across the street: "Trustee Hauck has sold us out," and they received honks
and shouts of support from sunglass-wearing drivers in Mercedes Benz convertibles and from drivers of city garbage trucks alike along the streets that border the hotel.
