How not to make your political case

Isaac Miller and Irene Van, who traveled to U.C.L.A. [to protest the impending 32 percent undergraduate fee hike at the University of California] late Wednesday night in a bus caravan from Berkeley, said they worried about how higher fees would affect illegal immigrant students, who are not eligible for financial aid...
--Tamar Lewin and Rebecca Cathcart, NYT, on political tone-deafness from Berkeley