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...support the aims of these campaigns—convincing legislators who are setting state-wide budgets to allot more money for education. Diverging from past protests that included tactics such as storming classrooms and occupying academic buildings, the latest round of action in California instead involved groups of protestors storming highways, causing traffic to shut down. The smart shift in focus from targeting university administrators to directing frustration at budget-setting lawmakers will ideally bring about change as quickly as possible...
Much criticism has been directed at students for having taken to the streets rather than staying in the classroom where, so it is said, a student who really cared about education would be. The academic sacrifices suffered to support these campaigns for the protection of higher education are indeed real, and students across the UC system remark they are suffering from "protest fatigue...
...protests aim to stop the erosion of one of the pillars of accessible, public university education—affordability. Non-violent protests against this unfortunate reality—as all the protests have promised to be—are thus completely justified. As such, we support the protestors’ expansive, multi-dimensional approach and hope that the students, staff, faculty, and administrators of the UC schools will begin seeing their demands for the continued safety and strength of the public university system...
...daughter’s schooling, as well as several other women in similar situations. In 2006, the London Times reported that an estimated one in ten students attending a university knew someone who had at some point "stripped, lapdanced or worked at massage parlours and escort agencies to support themselves." In 2008, ABC reported a rise in the rates of prostitution and drug trafficking among school children in Papua New Guinea in order to "pay school fees." And last July, CBS’s Katie Couric told the stories of several college-attending American girls forced to turn to prostitution...
...meeting, Obama approved Emanuel's negotiations with Graham but stopped short of signing off on an actual deal that would change the trial plans. The President also expressed continued support for the principle of civilian trials for terrorism suspects, sources familiar with the meeting tell TIME...