Several Hundred Students Strike at UMass-Amherst to Protest Fees and Voice Concerns

by E Wayne Ross on November 16, 2007

The Chronicle: Several Hundred Students Strike at UMass-Amherst to Protest Fees and Voice Concerns

Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst began a two-day strike on Thursday to protest what they see as administrators’ indifference to their concerns.

Undergraduates and graduate students planned the strike together. They stated four demands: a drop in student fees, more attention to diversity, the withdrawal of police officers from dormitories, and more student say in the use of campus space.