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19 hours ago ago from Keith Burgess-Jackson
Student protesters in San Francisco have taken over a campus building. They are demanding lower tuition, forgiveness of student loans, and, oh yes, while they're at it, an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why stop there? Why not demand (1) a lifetime supply of M&Ms, (2) free music via the Internet (oh wait; they already have that), and (3) peace, love, and joy for everyone, everywhere, always, with no responsibility, no work, no pain, ...
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1 hour, 53 minutes ago ago from View Patna
Activists of All India Students Federation took out a Governor House march in Patna on December 10, 2009 to protest the irregularities in the BA first and second year results of Magadh University. However, protesters were stopped at R-Block round about by the police. After a bit of commotion, administration allowed a delegation of the students to meet the Governor. Later Bihar Governor’s secretary SK Negi met the students and assured them ...
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23 hours ago ago from Dispatches from the Front
When my daughter started getting involved with the student protest movement around the war and most recently, the insane fee hikes at San Fransisco State, I fretted quietly to myself, this is a phase . She's away from home, she's pushing boundaries, she's learning about herself and the world. This was girl who got nearly straight A's, helped out in the office and was involved in dance nearly every day of the week during her high school years. ...
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21 hours ago ago from California City E-Zine | City Focused Blog, Covering Local Issues
Police at the University of California, Berkeley are arresting protesters who have been staked out in a campus building for the past week. This entry was posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 8:55 am and is filed under Los Angeles , Merced . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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20 hours ago ago from All the News That\'s Fit to Parent
The California state university system is in trouble. The school is facing a decrease in state funding, which is leading to budget cuts for the schools and tuition increases for the students. Naturally, the students are unhappy. This is the kind of story you'd have expected in the 1970s, but not so much today. That's what makes it so awesome. Students at San Francisco State University didn't just get mad: they took action, retro ...
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26 Students Arrested in Protest Over Tuition Increases
23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO Twenty-six students were arrested at San Francisco State University before dawn on Thursday after some students barricaded themselves inside a building to protest budget cuts and tuition increases across the state's public university system. The doors were locked with chains from the inside so police broke through a window to get in, a university spokeswoman, Ellen Griffin, said. We're approaching final exams and the end of ...
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2 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Venezuela detains 2 in student's slaying CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan authorities have detained two suspects in the killing of a university student whose death sparked protests by fellow students. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami says the two young men are being questioned about the shooting of 20-year-old Jesus Ramirez Bello during a protest in the southwestern city of San Cristobal. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said ...
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32 minutes ago ago from U.S. News
UW System to market cost-saving as tuition rises MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin System will encourage students to graduate faster as a way to save money as some campuses seek tuition increases to improve their quality, its president said Friday. President Kevin Reilly told the Board of Regents that 29 percent of students graduate within four years, and increasing that rate would allow students to enter the work force ...
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