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University of California Santa Cruz students don't want their school to grow. A plan to expand the campus body from 14,000 to 20,000 and add more than 3 million square feet of building space over the next 15 years was met by student protests.

UC Santa Cruz was listed in the Princeton Review as one of the nations top ten most beautiful campuses.

Santa Cruz is a hippie town that sits on the Pacific Coast just over the hill from San Jose and Silicon Valley.

Campus buildings are hidden among trees. The department of transexual transformation is behind the third tree on the little creek where those two deer hang out.

Santa Cruz residents seem to be worried about an increase in traffic and hurting the environment - progress - the kind of things hippies worry about.

The students and faculty seem to be worried about losing its personality - weird as it might be.

Growth with prudence comes with the territory I think.

Yelling and screaming - "We don't want to grow up!" will not help.

What do you think?