[UPDATE BELOW] A protest at Hunter College against education budget cuts turned, well, normal yesterday, with police arresting three individuals who were not enrolled at the school. Before the demonstration moved out to the streets, unidentified activists broke the glass doors to the Financial Aid office, and, as one dissident blog puts it, "the much hated security turnstiles at the entrance to the building." Somebody also scrawled graffiti on the walls, and a source tells the Hunter Word that the cost of repairing all the damage could clock in at $25,000. Way to stick it to the man the cash-strapped, taxpayer-funded institution that's facing budget cuts! And you'll never guess who's rumored to be behind the vandalism!

Witnesses tell the Hunter Word the "varmints wore bandannas over their faces," and another source says, "In fact a lot of the students who caused all the problems today were from the New School and NYU." Remember them? The source continues: "The majority of students who walked out seem to be smoking cigarettes outside of the Kaye Playhouse or getting lunch at the Halal stand but some of them are also pulling fire alarms, vandalizing the turnstiles (which amuses me) and in the case of one student, smashing beer bottles outside of the journalism lab. Riveting."

Occupy Everything, a group loosely affiliated with the New School protesters and other international activists, emailed us this video (below) with the characteristically strident subject heading "ATTACKING STUDENT DEMONSTRATION at HUNTER COLLEGE NYC." Spoiler alert: Nobody's seen getting "attacked" in the video, but there is a lot of shrill ranting, and one guy who looks suspiciously like Thom Yorke is seen getting CHASED by the PIGS... who then BRUTALLY give up and let him melt into the crowd. According to the Post, Elizabeth Couper, 20 and Alexander Cline, 21 were arrested at a building on Park Avenue near East 68th Street after they were allegedly caught kicking down barricades. City Room reports that they also had graffiti instruments (marking pens), and a 37-year-old man was charged with disorderly conduct.

About 60 protesters failed to occupy the seven-floor main building at Hunter. They then led a walkout around 1 p.m., and after rallying outside the school, the demonstrators marched to a larger rally outside Governor Paterson's office, where hundreds gathered to protest his proposed $1.4 billion in cuts to funding for schools.

UPDATE: A spokesperson from Occupy Everything insists none of the people at the protest were affiliated with the New School, adding:

People were hurt by police and they did intimidate and enter into the protest to arrest people yesterday at hunter college. From a first hand account of a friend of one of the arrestees, I was told they saw police denying the arrested an opportunity to seek legal counsel and were intimidating the arrested with a taser while in police custody. Repression is a very real thing and is not something to be taken lightly.

Get your morning shot of shrill with this video, produced by Glass Bead Collective, below: