Santa Monica College board puts a hold on 2-tier pricing plan

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About 30 students were pepper sprayed by campus police while protesting a new two-tier pricing plan for courses at a Santa Monica College Board of Trustees meeting.

Santa Monica trustees voted today to put a hold on their controversial plan to offer a two-tiered pricing structure for classes. The plan would have called for bumping the costs of some popular courses nearly five-fold. 

Pass/Fail reporter Vanessa Romo was at this morning's emergency meeting, where she provided updates and collected some colorful quotes from the debate. Check out her story, and follow her on Twitter. 

SMC professor says class cost increases are like abortion. Nobody's for it but sometimes it's necessary.

— Vanessa Romo (@vanromo) April 6, 2012