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...women continued their protest in the road, they were met by several hundred military police carrying riot shields and truncheons. The police stood alongside four armored personnel carriers and attempted to push the demonstrators back. The protesters fell back, then advanced on the military police, who eventually retreated about 100 yards as a group of black-clad riot police advanced from the other direction. After about an hour, the protest faded down back alleys, and Foreign Ministry officials pushed reporters back onto buses. "It is hard for you to understand what it is like to be a Uighur," said...
...after the street protests had been stopped, Chinese security forces "stormed into Xinjiang University and several other universities, entering the dormitories and arresting students." He said many students were killed in front of the gates of the university by armed security forces shooting automatic weapons and using armored personnel carriers...
...savings achieved by the latest staff cuts, as well as those arising from personnel attrition and the University's voluntary early retirement incentive program, are part of the $77 million of FAS budget cuts announced in May, Bradt said. But even after the recent downsizing and other service reductions, FAS, the University's largest school, still has a projected $143 million annual deficit that Smith says must be eliminated by fiscal year 2011. As a result, the School has now embarked on a process of "resizing and reshaping" its operations...
...noted that union negotiators still have "serious questions" about a handful of personnel cases and are continuing to engage with human resource officials about the cuts...
...This past spring, 25 of 72 eligible Law School employees accepted buyouts from the University. Administrators further reduced the personnel budget by eliminating some vacant positions and visiting faculty appointments, freezing faculty and non-union staff salaries, and slashing faculty allowances. Professors and senior administrators have also pledged several hundred thousand dollars in donations to help offset the budget...