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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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Anti-abortion activists defy university

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The Calgary Sun: Anti-abortion activists defy university

Potential new trespassing charges didn’t scare away anti-abortion crusaders who are back at the University of Calgary campus with their controversial display.

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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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York wants more civil Israeli-Palestinian debate

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Globe and Mail: York wants more civil Israeli-Palestinian debate

TORONTO — A month after rancorous and polarizing on-campus fights about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, York University will announce today its plans to steer the debate back toward civility.

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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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Canada: Campuses awash in tension over Israel apartheid week

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National Post: Campuses awash in tension over Israel apartheid week

As hostilities in Gaza cooled off last month, campuses across Canada were actually heating up in preparation for “Israel Apartheid Week.”

On a dour Sunday afternoon at Toronto’s Ryerson University, left-leaning teachers and students hosted a conference called “Gaza: War? Occupation? Apartheid?”

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Lawsuit over gay-marriage speech at L.A. City College spurs reactions

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Los Angeles Times: Lawsuit over gay-marriage speech at L.A. City College spurs reactions

Protesters back the student who claims his professor reacted badly to his religion-related stance against same-sex unions; a gay unity club forms; a New York man gets misdirected death threats.

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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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UMass hikes fees amid student uproar

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southcoasttoday.com: UMass hikes fees amid student uproar

DARTMOUTH — Ignoring the signs, persistent chanting and occasional outbursts of about 150 student protesters, the UMass Board of Trustees overwhelmingly voted Friday to raise student fees by $1,500 for the next school year.

The 12-4 vote during a meeting on the Dartmouth campus raises the annual cost for a full-time, in-state undergraduate at UMass Dartmouth to $10,358, a jump of 17 percent. System-wide, tuition and fees for in-state undergrads will rise, on average, from $9,548 this year to $11,048 in the upcoming academic year.

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Ireland: Unions to discuss next move after huge Dublin protest

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Irish Times: Unions to discuss next move after huge Dublin protest
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BALLOTS ON strike action are expected to be on the agenda when the executive council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) meets tomorrow to consider its next move following Saturday’s massive protest march in Dublin.

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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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