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Greece: Youth, anarchists occupy Aristotle U

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World University News: GREECE: Under attack from within

For more than two weeks, the administration headquarters of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest in the country, has been occupied by youths, members of non-parliamentary leftwing organisations and sundry other anarchist groups. They have prevented staff from carrying out their duties and are causing serious disruption in the management of the institution.

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KENYA: Violent protests close Kenyatta indefinitely

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World University News: KENYA: Violent protests close Kenyatta indefinitely

Kenyatta University in Kenya was closed indefinitely last Monday after students went on the rampage, destroying property worth millions of shillings hardly three days after its re-opening. One student died and several were injured after riot police were called in.

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Employees Revolt Over Layoffs at U. of New Mexico Press

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The Chronicle News Blog: Employees Revolt Over Layoffs at U. of New Mexico Press

Employees at the University of New Mexico Press learned yesterday that three of their colleagues would be let go at the end of April and that nine more positions — in order fulfillment and customer service — might soon be outsourced. That kind of news is all too common these days. More unusual is what happened next: This afternoon, the employees issued their own press release, alleging that the press’s director, Luther Wilson, was partly to blame for the situation. They also questioned whether outsourcing could solve the press’s financial woes.

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Michigan: Bill Ayers protested at Oakland University event

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Detroit News: Bill Ayers protested at Oakland University event
Co-founder of group that bombed federal buildings shares education reform views.

ROCHESTER — Bill Ayers came to Michigan to talk about the future of education reform in the United States, but the anti-war activist, who participated in a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and ’70s, could not escape his past.

A line of 20 protesters with signs filled the back wall of a lecture hall at Oakland University on Tuesday as Ayers gave a brief talk on democracy and education.

Some booed when Ayers entered the room, while about 170 OU students, faculty and alumni applauded the college professor who discussed what he termed “savage inequities” in education that affect minorities, women and gays.

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FRANCE: Academic and student anger grows

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World University News: FRANCE: Academic and student anger grows

The nation’s universities continued to be disrupted by strikes and protests against proposed teacher training reforms last week, while university presidents called for a year’s delay in introducing the changes to allow time for reflection and consultation.

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KENYA: Riot after murder of former student leaders

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World University News: KENYA: Riot after murder of former student leaders

Kenyan students rioted last week, demanding the resignation of the country’s police commissioner following the murder of two former student leaders in a suspected assassination by security agents. Outgoing chairman of Kenyatta University Students’ Association Martin KO Luther told University World News that the former students, who were shot dead in their car, had been involved in human rights work.

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Workers Protest Across France

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The New York Times: Workers Protest Across France

PARIS — France’s airports, trains and utilities were hit by work stoppages on Thursday, as unions mobilized against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s economic policies and his government’s response to the global recession.

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Rare Student Protest in Vietnam Gets Results

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The Chronicle News Blog: Rare Student Protest in Vietnam Gets Results

Hanoi, Vietnam — In a country where students rarely protest anything, officials of Hong Bang University, in Ho Chi Minh City, have decided to cancel a tuition increase after hundreds of protesters took to the streets, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported.

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On Israel, Shifted Ground

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Inside Higher Ed: On Israel, Shifted Ground
March 6, 2009

The ground seems to have shifted, activists on all sides say. What they make of it varies.

A shift toward more visible pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel sentiment has been profound on some campuses, prompted, in part, by the winter war in Gaza. Where some describe a corresponding disintegration of civil discourse or a scapegoating of Israel for a complex set of problems, others celebrate a newfound space in which to be critical of Israel — to mount a challenge to what they see as a dominant discourse, so to speak.

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Students protest LAUSD teacher layoffs [UPDATED]

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Los Angeles Times: Students protest LAUSD teacher layoffs [UPDATED]
11:32 AM | March 16, 2009

A large group of students from Roybal High School and Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles have walked out of class to protest teacher cuts, authorities said today.

At 10:35 a.m., about 200 students walked about a mile toward the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters at 3rd Street and Beaudry Avenue, LAPD Officer Rosario Herrera said.

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Animal-Rights Activists Claim Responsibility for Arson of UCLA Professor’s Car

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The Chronicle News Blog: Animal-Rights Activists Claim Responsibility for Arson of UCLA Professor’s Car

The FBI is investigating yet another attack on a university researcher involved in animal experimentation.

A car was burned on Saturday outside the home of the researcher, an associate professor of behavioral neuroscience at the University of California at Los Angeles, an FBI spokesman said. No one was physically injured in the attack, the spokesman said.

A group called the Animal Liberation Front posted a message on its Web site from an entity calling itself the Animal Liberation Brigade claiming responsibility for the arson attack. The statement said the professor “addicts monkeys to methamphetamines and other street drugs” and promised future attacks that cause “a lot more damage than to your property” if the experimentation continues.

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On Israel, Shifted Ground

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Inside Higher Ed: On Israel, Shifted Ground

The ground seems to have shifted, activists on all sides say. What they make of it varies.

A shift toward more visible pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel sentiment has been profound on some campuses, prompted, in part, by the winter war in Gaza. Where some describe a corresponding disintegration of civil discourse or a scapegoating of Israel for a complex set of problems, others celebrate a newfound space in which to be critical of Israel — to mount a challenge to what they see as a dominant discourse, so to speak.

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Canadian groups wage campaign against Israel Apartheid Week

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Jerusalem Post: Canadian groups wage campaign against Israel Apartheid Week

Israel activism groups in Canada launched a viral campaign this week called “Students for Peace on Campus” to battle Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).

In just the second day of the week-long series of anti-Israel events, Canada’s Center for Israel Activism and the Hasbara Fellowship and Hillel of Greater Toronto combined their efforts to set up a Web site and distribute YouTube videos aiming to “spread awareness and combat this unacceptable atmosphere on college campuses.”

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Canadian universities blasted for ban on anti-Israel ‘apartheid’ poster

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Haaretz: Canada schools blasted for ban on anti-Israel ‘apartheid’ poster

Two Canadian universities came under criticism this week for banning a poster which is seen to be depicting Israelis as child-killers and accusing Israel of apartheid. Brazilian politicians and scholars, meanwhile, lambasted a recent student exchange accord between Tel Aviv University and a Catholic academy from Sao Paulo.

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Canada: Middle East tensions flare at universities

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Globe and Mail: Middle East tensions flare at universities

Tensions over the conflict in the Middle East are igniting a fierce debate at Canadian universities, raising questions about freedom of speech and the rights of students to feel welcome and safe on campus.

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French Government Backs Down Amid Protests Over Higher-Education Proposals

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The Chronicle News Blog: French Government Backs Down Amid Protests Over Higher-Education Proposals

The French government has yielded to pressure following weeks of protests and disruptions at universities across the country and announced that a controversial decree governing the hiring and promotion of researchers engaged in teaching would be “entirely rewritten on the basis of discussions conducted by Valérie Pécresse [the higher-education minister] with the organizations in question.”

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This ain’t the New School

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howtheuniversityworks.com: This ain’t the New School

Hundreds of students showed up to support the approximately 80 students occupying an NYU cafeteria last week. Organized by the TakeBackNYU coalition of dozens of student organizations, the occupying students asked for increased campus democracy, transparency in operations, and accountability from the administration to faculty and students. Specific demands included tuition stabilization, collective bargaining with student employees, socially responsible investing, fair labor practice on offshore NYU campuses, and thirteen scholarships for students displaced by the bombing of Gaza.

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Protest Grows at NYU

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Inside Higher Ed: Protest Grows at NYU

Hundreds of people rallied outside a New York University building early Friday morning, at times clashing with police officers, to back a student group barricaded inside, The New York Times reported. The student group is demanding a variety of changes in policy, including the release of more information about the university budget and endowment, the return of a union for graduate students, limits on tuition increases, scholarships for Palestinian students and amnesty for those involved in the protest. NYU and the protesting students both accused the other side of making negotiations impossible. Those protesting are providing updates online at Take Back NYU while a parody Web site — Fake Back NYU — has deconstructed the various demands.

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Nearly 200 Faculty Members at U.S. Colleges Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel

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The Chronicle News Blog: Nearly 200 Faculty Members at U.S. Colleges Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel

A fledgling group calling itself the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel now lists 193 faculty members and several student groups at American colleges as endorsing its call for a boycott.

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National science group boycotting Louisiana in protest of anti-evolution law

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Times-Picayune: National science group boycotting Louisiana in protest of Science Education Act

BATON ROUGE — A national organization of scientists has informed Gov. Bobby Jindal it will not hold its annual convention in Louisiana as long as the recently adopted Science Education Act remains on the books.

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