BERKELEY, Calif. – University of California students are revolting over a significant tuition increase and the compensation for the college system’s president likely won’t soothe them.

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Students across the state – most notably in Berkeley – are protesting a vote of the Board of Regents that approved “hikes of up to 5 percent a year, for the next five years, unless state funding is increased,” according to NPR.

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Contending “education is a universal human right,” a group called “The Open UC” is staging walkouts and protests.

“We do not accept this,” sophomore Hannah Berkman tells the news station. “These tuition hikes really put into question our right to accessible, affordable public education.”

“This is supposed to be a public university that is accessible to everyone no matter your financial resources,” Berkman says. “Education is a right, and these tuition hikes are turning it into a privilege.”

The protesters occupied a university building and slept over night there.

They called the action a “symbolic reclamation of higher education,” SFGate reports.

“On Wednesday, 21-year-old UC Berkeley student Jeff Noven was arrested on suspicion of vandalism and inciting a riot outside the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, where the regents met earlier in the day to discuss the tuition increase,” according to the news site.

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The compensation package for the UC system’s president, Janet Napolitano, will likely not help to calm the protesters.

The former secretary of Homeland Security was hired last year and the Los Angeles Times detailed some of the perks the new president negotiated:

* $570,000 salary

* $8,916 a year for car expenses

* $142,500 for one-time relocation costs

* Oakland residence costing $9,950 a month

 Napolitano isn’t the only one raking in that tuition money.

“A 20 percent salary increase for higher-level administrators seems really, really unnecessary and hypocritical if you’re increasing tuition by this much,” Berkman tells NPR.