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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more than 50 police officers dressed in full riot gear forcibly ended a four-day sit-in at the University of Wisconsin, using saws to break apart a group of students who chained themselves together with bicycle U-locks around their necks, after earlier dispersing protesters with pepper spray...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Stage Sweatshop Protests at Colleges Nationwide | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

...city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading the Word | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...hilarious lyrics. The second song, "U + Me = Us (Calculus)" is their not-so-subtle "I Want It That Way" and "Rub One Out," well, is their token masturbation piece ("Rub one out and I grab my crotch/Rub one out/Do you wanna watch?"). Also included are "Say It (Don't Spray It)" ("I want the news/Not the weather") and techno and karaoke versions...

Author: By Various Artists and Pat Metheny, S | Title: New Albums | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...protests, a four-day sit-in at the University of Wisconsin ended in violence. At about 4 a.m. Sunday morning, municipal and university police officers arrested about 50 student protesters, three days after using pepper spray to gain access to the building. Wisconsin did agree to withdraw from the FLA and "conditionally" join...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Gets Support From Council to Persuade Harvard to Exit the FLA | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...nine-day standoff. Two sit-ins, at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin, are still ongoing. At Wisconsin, more than 50 students entered the chancellor's office and six locked themselves together with bicycle locks. Police officers forced their way into the building and used pepper spray to subdue the demonstrators...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Hall Ejects Three PSLM Protestors | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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