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Caught on camera: Janet Napolitano calls anti-tuition-hike student protest ‘crap’

The first rule of broadcasting and politics is that the mic is always hot. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano forgot that rule during a University of California regents meeting, calling a student protest against tuition hikes “crap.”

 Napolitano, now the president of the UC system, was leading a  Wednesday meeting of the Board of Regents at UC San Francisco.  She was sitting next to Chairman Bruce Varner when the gathering  was interrupted by students protesting potential tuition fee  hikes and a new UC Berkeley campus in Richmond, California, KPIX  reported.

 At the meeting, which was being recorded, UC Berkeley junior  Kristian Kim told the regents that students and Richmond  residents were not to be exploited before taking off her shirt,  saying it was all she had left, kicking off the protest,  according to the San Jose Mercury News.