I stumbled accross the following paragraphs in yesterday's campus newspaper here:

Nearly one-sixth of Berkeley High School students skipped class Friday morning, parading through Downtown to the UC Berkeley campus to protest a possible U.S. war in Iraq.

About 500 students walked out of class at 11 a.m., although the crowd dwindled to 200 by the time it reached the UC Berkeley ROTC building where the rally was held, said Mark Coplan, Berkeley Unified School District spokesperson.

Pretty priceless...