At the Students for Justice meeting on Thursday afternoon,exhausted students voted to end the tent city after two weeks ofcamping in the quad.The club decided to take down the tents Friday afternoon, but itpromises the protest against laying off 38 classified districtemployees would not end.Further action is planned for the district board meeting atFoothill tonight at 7 p.m.”The board is not listening to the voice of the students sonow they must hear our actions,” said De Anza Student TrusteeAdam Welch. “We are going to be demanding that they respectus and the workers on the campus and stop selfishly looking out forthemselves and the upper management of the college.”Welch plans to propose that all the lay off notices be rescindedand that a committee be formed to look into alternative ways tosave district money, such as cutting management in departments likeEducational Technology Services.Interim Chancellor Lois Callahan said that some staff would havetheir layoff notices rescinded at the board meeting but “notas a result of the protest.””Understand we share their concern,” said Callahan.However, Welch said, “I don’t think that ChancellorCallahan or the board have demonstrated that they share ourconcern. Students and workers both voiced their concern to them andthey blew us off. They haven’t given us the time ofday.””[The Foothill-De Anza District] is sitting onan approximate $7 million emergency fund,” saidMulticultural Staff Association president Les Leonardo. “Itwould only cost the district an estimated $2.1 million to save allthe occupied classified jobs that are being cut.”District administration has rejected using the reserve money,saying that would only be a temporary solution to the problem, andthat it would pay the salaries of the workers for just oneyear.”DASB passed a resolution saying that management should becut before workers,” said DASB President Melecia Navarro.”We have tried to use shared governance, but we are beingforced to use more direct action tactics. In shared governance, youget a seat at the table. But they don’t listen.”Welch said, “Trustees Judith Moss, Mary Mason and AndreaLeiderman are all up for reelection in the fall. SFJ, the unionsand the workers on campus are prepared to campaign against them.They are going to pay politically for not listening to theirconstituents.””We may not be able to get those people that were laid offrehired,” said SFJ member Ali Rahnoma. “But we havebeen able to accomplish a lot of things that people overlook. Wehave empowered students, raised awareness, and made workers feelappreciated, and we are always building a movement oncampus.”