Students are protesting fee hikes and budget cuts at all of the University of California campuses across the state. UCLA experienced an especially violent response from the authorities, and Shannon Steen of UC Berkeley gives Angie a first-hand account of the events. Then Angie interviews Cornel West, one of America's most provocative, admired public intellectuals and the author of the new memoir "Living and Loving Out Loud."

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