A successful, peaceful, and disobedient protest took place on March 4th.

Students, faculty, and staff began gathering at the Bell Tower on the UCR campus at around 11 a.m. on March fourth for what turned out to be a successful, peaceful, and disobedient protest. While staff and faculty were present throughout the protests and rallies, students fully dominated the events. Conservatively, two hundred and fifty students gathered, but that number swelled throughout the day and may have been as high as three hundred and fifty participants. A number of speakers addressed the crowd and among them were Mr. Michael Yonezawa, Dr. Stephanie Kay, and Dr. Paul Beehler. Performances with "the spoken word" also took place. At the conclusion of the rally, UCR student Cindy Bui presented the demands of the students before Chancellor White.

After the rally at the Bell Tower, the student dominated protest assumed the role of a march that paraded through campus. At two in the afternoon, the protestors gathered at Unity Corner and proceeded down University Avenue to Cesar Chavez community center where more protestors joined the march. The larger group of protestors then merged with K-12 students and Riverside Community College students at the Sweeney Art Gallery where speeches and dances took place throughout the afternoon in the shadow of police girded in full riot gear. The protestors were loud and boisterous but peaceful, even to the point that half of the police force, some dozen officers, left the rally at about 4:30 p.m.

Press coverage was light, but the Press Enterprise did run a story on the event, and other stories may be forthcoming.

Dressed in graduation garb, seven students carrying an eighth on their shoulders entered the intersection of Market and University at five p.m. to hold a mock funeral for public education. The protest included a large tombstone and blocked traffic (to the great dismay of some impatient motorists) for six to seven minutes.

No arrests took place.

The protest and act of civil disobedience were the most significant expression of activism in recent UCR history.