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The Tapped blog reported today that the Daily Pennsylvanian of the University of Pennsylvania had endorsed Hillary Clinton, calling the nod Clinton’s first “major college paper endorsement.”
Actually, according to the University Wire, the Pennsylvanian is the fourth college paper to endorse Hillary, joining the UT Daily Texan, Boston University’s Daily Free Press, and the George Washington University GW Hatchet.
That doesn’t mean it’s a contest, though — UW says Obama has 45 campus newspaper endorsements so far.
Nine student protesters at the University of Montana were handcuffed and arrested Wednesday evening, ending a sit-in in the university president’s office that had begun at noon that day. According to the Missoulian newspaper:
The nine people arrested are members of Students for Social and Economic Justice, a group that wants the university to adopt the “Designated Suppliers Program” promoted by the Workers Rights Consortium, a nonprofit labor rights group that monitors and investigates working conditions around the world. The DSP identifies manufacturing companies and factories that provide good working conditions.
The protesters were charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct and released.
In the wake of a series of campus protests, the administration of the University of Ottawa is circulating a draft code of student conduct that defines a new class of “non-academic” infractions. The last two years have seen an unusual upsurge of activism at Ottawa, with students organizing around issues ranging from “high tuition fees to language rights and campus safety. The most recent protests have concerned the corporatization of the campus and the elimination of “a controversial course on social activism” taught by a physics professor.
The vice president of the Ottawa student government is described as concerned that the university is “trying to push through the code of conduct while students are preoccupied with exams and anticipating the summer break.”
May 24 Update: A follow-up report on the code struggle appears here.
studentactivism.net 
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