BERKELEY-Protesters at Sather Gate have taped off UC Berkeley's Sather Gate, the landmark entrance to the university, to send the regents a message that as tuition continues to increase, fewer students will be able to enter the school's halls.

Asked what she thinks California will look like in ten years given what's happening in public education today, 21-one-year-old Taylor Kohles said, "We need to change our priorities and fully fund education. If that doesn't happen, it will create an education gap."

Twenty-year-old sophomore Maria Jimenez said she's struggling to pay her own tuition because her parents can't afford it any more, and as costs increase, "it's becoming very competitive to get scholarships. They want us to be smart and get educated but how can we if we can't afford it?"