Reuters: Unions, students mass for big job protests
PARIS (Reuters) – Huge crowds of students, trade unionists and left-wingers took to the streets across France on Saturday to put pressure on the conservative government to cancel a new law they fear will undermine job security for young workers.
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The Chronicle: Students Across France Take to Streets in Further Protests of New Jobs Law
Tens of thousands of students took to the streets in cities across France on Thursday as demonstrations against controversial new employment legislation continued.
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The Chronicle: French Police Raid Sorbonne to Rout Protesters of New Employment Law
Universities across France were convulsed by demonstrations last week, culminating in a dramatic police raid on demonstrators at the Sorbonne over the weekend as students protested new legislation that will give employers greater leeway to fire young workers.
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The Chronicle: Student Dismissed After Seeking Treatment for Depression Claims George Washington U. Violated His Rights
A former student has sued George Washington University, claiming that administrators violated his civil rights when they dismissed him from the campus after he had sought treatment for depression. The first-of-its-kind case challenges the legality of mandatory-leave policies, which some colleges have adopted in an effort to deal with suicidal students.
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The Los Angeles Times: Judge Orders UC to Repay Fee Increases
The University of California broke its promises not to hike some fees and should pay refunds totaling more than $33.8 million to thousands of current and former students, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco has ruled.
The decision, released Monday, carries the biggest potential benefit for about 9,100 students who were enrolled in professional schools, such as law, medicine, nursing and business, in 2002 or earlier.
The Chronicle: State Judge Tells U. of California to Pay $33.8-Million to Students Whom It Misled in Raising Tuition Rates
A California judge has ordered the University of California to pay $33.8-million to former students who accused it of breach of contract when it raised tuition over the past three years despite an apparent pledge not to do so. The class-action lawsuit represents a rare victory for students in litigation over tuition increases.
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The Western Herald: Students lead fight against Coca-Cola
Several academic institutions across the United States have banned the sale of Coca-Cola from their campuses in response to allegations that the company is abusing human rights and environmental practices in Columbia and India.
The University of Michigan joined that list when, on December 29 of last year, they announced they would no longer sell Coke on campus
Inside Higher Ed: Strike Two
New York University students returned to class Tuesday, which means striking graduate assistants returned to the picket lines. Neither the picketers nor the NYU administration know for sure how many graduate assistants will remain on strike this semester. Still, the physical presence of striking members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, the local affiliate of the United Auto Workers that had represented about 1,000 NYU graduate assistants, will be more diffuse.
The Chronicle: Tulane Students Seek to Save Engineering Programs Slated to Close, With Petition and Pledges
Engineering students at Tulane University are gearing up to save their programs, which were among the academic units that Tulane announced last week would close as the university struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The students have collected more than 2,300 signatures on an online petition and are receiving pledges of $1,000 per year for life from some supporters.
The Save Tulane Engineering organization formed within hours of Tulane’s announcement last Thursday that the university would cut its departments of civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering as part of its post-Katrina restructuring plan (The Chronicle, December 9). Within a day the petition had 800 signatures.
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The National Student Clearninghouse reports over 1,000 colleges accepted more than 18,000 Katrina-displaced students from six closed Louisiana colleges. Read the NSC report here.
Read coverage of the report in The Chronicle of Higher Education here.
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Globe and Mail: Booze-filled riot leads to probe by Queen’s
Queen’s University officials and police said yesterday they will consider the future of the school’s annual homecoming festivities after a weekend street party degenerated into an alcohol-fuelled riot that saw drunken revellers pelting police officers with beer bottles and overturning and burning a car.
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Christian Science Monitor: More students drawn to conservative colleges
In these politically polarized times, a rising number of top conservative students are politicizing their school choices. Instead of going to a Princeton or Stanford, they’re opting for less costly home-state universities or smaller schools that see themselves as standardbearers of Christian values and laissez-faire governance. Such choices are perhaps a boon to those who intend to pursue careers in politics, since conservative think tanks increasingly are recruiting from these colleges.
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Princeton University significantly reduced the number of A’s it gave out last year, according to a report released yesterday by the university, but it still wants to do more.
Roughly 41 percent of the grades given in undergraduate courses last year were A-pluses, A’s or A-minuses, down from 46 percent the previous year and 48 percent the year before that. In April 2004, the Princeton faculty set a goal of 35 percent. The school year that ended in May was the first year under the policy.
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Guardian Unlimited: “Student union to defy ban on Islamist debate”
Student leaders at Middlesex University last night vowed to go ahead and host a debate with the controversial Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir despite their university’s ban on the meeting.
The Middlesex vice-chancellor, Michael Driscoll, yesterday ordered the union to cancel the question and answer session – scheduled to take place later this month – following a call from the education secretary last week for a crackdown on extremism on campus.
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Washington Post: After slurs, students rally for change
After class at the University of Virginia one night this week, sophomore Kyle Miller found a note attached to the windshield of his jeep. It wasn’t a ticket; it was something hateful, racist, written in red ink, in all caps.
Just a few weeks into the school year, U-Va. has had at least nine racist incidents — slurs shouted from cars, ugly words written on message boards, a racist threat scrawled on a bathroom wall. And students, parents and alumni are demanding change.
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