Want something you can really do about the UC budget crisis?
Go talk to your parents.Ask them how they voted on Proposition 13. Ask them how they feel about paying taxes. Ask them who they've voted for in state assembly and gubernatorial elections for the last 20 years.
And then ask them if they realize that the real reason your college education is so damn expensive is that the State of California is unable to get its revenue in line with its spending because it cannot set reasonable taxes on its populace. Ask them if they've thought about how much they've paid into the system in taxes as California residents and how some of those taxes were originally intended to fund the University of California so that attendance could be free for all qualified Californian students. And then, ask them who they really think is to blame for the UC fee increases, furloughs, and layoffs.
After that, talk to your neighbors. Your friends' parents. Your grandparents. Your hairdresser, your grocery store clerk, your doctor, your lawyer, and the person next to you on the bus. Let them know that you, as a UC student, are paying for their dislike of taxes, their greed, and their unwillingness to realize that real public services cost real money. Let them know that the only way to fix this is for them, and us, to elect a new government that will reverse the last three decades of failed conservative fiscal policy. Let them know that they should be calling their representatives and telling them to pass a real budget, one that funds the state's services, and to raise some taxes to get proper revenue for these services.
And let them know that you are angry.