(CNN) -- A California movement protesting $1 billion in budget cuts to the
state's university system appeared to have burgeoned into a nationwide
demonstration on Thursday.
Students and professors in dozens of states were challenging administrators
and state lawmakers over budget cuts and tuition increases that they say are
reducing students' class options and increasing their expenses.
Some of the protests turned chaotic. At the University of California-Davis,
police held back student protester
