World University News: GREECE: Violence erupts at Athens university
Several students were taken to hospital, fortunately with minor injuries, following a weekend of violence by warring factions at the Athens Economic University. The violence occurred for no apparent reason other than settling of accounts and defence of what teaching staff and students called their “client interests”.
Student unions at Greek universities are patronised and often dominated by the main political parties which use them as nurseries for the cultivation of potential politicians and, even more important, potential voters.
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