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UC Santa Cruz grad student sues university, saying she was clubbed by police during protest
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UC Santa Cruz graduate student Sabrina Shirazi is suing the university and its police for clubbing and badly injuring her during what she said was a peaceful protest.Nick Gonzales
A UC Santa Cruz graduate student is suing the university and its police for clubbing and badly injuring her during what she said was a peaceful picket last year.
Sabrina Shirazi, a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was one of several hundred students, faculty and staff who gathered outside the campus entrance in February to protest what they said was the university’s refusal to provide cost-of-living increases to graduate student employees faced with rising housing costs. Grad student teachers had called a strike that day, saying they could no longer afford food or rent.