Category Archives: Students

Inside Higher Ed: http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/12/gallaudet

The protest over the selection of Jane K. Fernandes as Gallaudet’s next president — which escalated last week when students took over the main academic building — ratcheted ever higher Wednesday when members of the university’s football team manned the front gates and shut the campus down. They were later joined by hundreds of students who formed a human chain to block anyone trying to enter.

The Chronicle: Protests Against President-Designate at Gallaudet U. Intensify With Campus Takeover

Student protesters sealed off Gallaudet University, the world’s only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, on Wednesday in an escalation of their protests against the choice of the institution’s next president.

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The Washington Times: Classes resume at Gallaudet

Classes resumed at Gallaudet University yesterday as hundreds of student protesters continued a sit-in at a classroom building to call for the resignation of Gallaudet’s new president.

Metropolitan Police and the campus’ public-safety officers investigated a bomb threat at the university for the deaf, where students have occupied the Hall Memorial Building in protest since Thursday.

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HeraldToday.com: Judge rejects challenge of tuition breaks for undocumented students

A Yolo County judge has rejected a legal challenge to a California law allowing the state’s public colleges and universities to extend resident tuition to students who are in the United States illegally.

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Inside Higher Ed: Standoff Grows at Gallaudet

Gallaudet University students and faculty members vigorously objected to the selection of Jane K. Fernandes as the institution’s president late last spring, but their protests failed to move trustees. As student leaders left the Washington, D.C., campus for the summer, they vowed that they weren’t done fighting. Late last week, they made good on that promise, escalating their protests with a building takeover.

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Infoshop News: Students Strategize In Wake of Brawl

In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday night’s protest against Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, the University and student groups moved quickly to coordinate their responses to the incident, reconcile differing opinions, and plan their next moves. Gilchrist spoke in Roone Arledge Auditorium on Wednesday night at the invitation of the Columbia University College Republicans. Audience dissent grew throughout the presentation of the introductory speaker, culminating when several protesters stormed the stage. Gilchrist supporters followed, leading to a chaotic brawl and bringing an abrupt end to the event. In an interview on Thursday night, a Student Affairs dean said that officials from Student Affairs and the Office of Multicultural Affairs met with a number of students who had been present at the protest to offer support.

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The New York Times: Columbia Investigating Protests That Stopped Speaker

Columbia University officials said today they were investigating what happened Wednesday night when protesters stormed a stage where the founder of a conservative anti-immigration group was trying to deliver an address, an incident that ended in chairs being overturned, and charges that students violated the speaker’s freedom of speech.

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Washington Post: Protesters Occupy Gallaudet Classroom Building

Hundreds of protesters took over the main classroom building at Gallaudet University on Thursday night and refused to leave yesterday, demanding that the board of trustees reopen the search for a president.

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On October 4, the College Republicans at Columbia University hosted Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist. The Minutemen are known for inciting racist violence against immigrants. In an exercise of free speech, students unfurled a banner on the stage reading “No One is Illegal”, prompting audience members to join them on the stage with another banner with the message, “No to Racism”. These peaceful protesters were violently assaulted. Below is their initial statement published the night of the protest as well as a link to a video showing parts of the event. They are now under attack from the
administration and potentially face disciplinary charges.

Please support them by signing the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/nominute/petition.html. The students
are also soliciting letters of support and solidarity, which can be sent to them at nominutemen@gmail.com

Statement of the Student Protestors:
We celebrate free speech: for that reason we allowed the Minutemen to speak, and for that same reason we peacefully occupied the stage and spoke ourselves. Our peaceful protest was violently attacked by members of the College Republicans and their supporters, who are the very same people who invited the Minutemen to our campus in the first place. The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on immigration. They are a racist, armed militia who have declared open hunting season on immigrants, causing countless hate crimes and over 3000 deaths on the border. Why should exploitative corporations have free passes between nations, but individual people not? No human being is illegal.

-Those who occupied the stage

Links to coverage, including video:
http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2006/10/05/News/Protestors.Rush.Minutemen-2333693.shtml?sourcedomain=www.columbiaspectator.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/76890.html

http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=2265
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New York Daily News: Mayor criticizes Columbia students who stormed stage

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday it was an “outrage” that Columbia University students stormed a campus stage while the anti-immigration founder of the Minuteman Project was speaking, and he urged the school’s president to prevent such incidents in the future.

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The Chronicle: Jury Convicts Former Student of Bribery in Grade-Buying Scandal at Southern U. at Baton RougeA former student at Southern University at Baton Rouge was convicted of bribery on Wednesday after a former associate registrar at the university, who had pleaded guilty to accepting thousands of dollars to change grades for dozens of students, testified against her.

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YouTube: Video of the incident

Columbia Spectator: Protestors Rush Minutemen

Protestors took the stage minutes after Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, came to the microphone in Roone Arledge Auditorium Wednesday night, sparking a chaotic brawl involving more than 20 students, other attendees, and guests.

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Christian Science Monitor: Student activists rise again – this time for Darfur

She sleeps less, goes out less, and has reduced her course load to work 30 to 40 hours a week organizing student campaigns. Her goal: to end the suffering in Darfur, Sudan, perhaps the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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The Chronicle: Academic Integrity Gets a Bad Grade in Survey of University Students in Canada

Academic misconduct is common among university students in Canada, a recent nationwide study has found. More than half of the undergraduates and 35 percent of the graduate students surveyed admitted some form of cheating on written course work.

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La Crosse Tribune: UW will not fund Catholic group: University no longer recognizes oldest and largest religious foundation on campus

niversity of Wisconsin-Madison will not recognize and fund the oldest and largest religious group on campus, for now, in a move that is sparking a debate over the separation of church and state.

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The New York Times: Here’s Your Syllabus, and Your Condom

AMERICANS generally think of back-to-school as a time for discounts on laptops and backpacks, a mad dash for textbooks and CliffsNotes, a chance to stock up on wool tights and warm socks. Few associate it with latex and lubricant.

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