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The shooting death of a 20-year-old student at Yemen’s Sana’a University has sparked massive protests against the militarization of the campus.
Saleh al Houti, 20, was shot by a soldier acting as a guard at the university gate on Tuesday as he drove onto campus. As word of the shooting spread, student protesters swarmed around the car of a university official, pelting it with shoes and bottles and breaking its windows. Armed kinsmen of the victim blocked all entry and exit from the university until Yemen’s minister of higher education arrived on campus making personal assurances that the shooter had been arrested.
Thousands of students marched on the Yemeni parliament the following day, demanding an end to armed guards on campus grounds.
Ridhwan Masood, the head of the university’s student union, said that students would “continue to organise protests inside the university campus and in front of the cabinet and parliament, using all legal means to kick out these soldiers and intelligence agents who repress our activities and abuse us out of the university … The government should stop militarising the university life. This is an academic institution and not a security compound.”
“Biologists and anthropologists now agree that dividing humanity into different races is fabricated and fraudulent; racial categories are scientific fictions. Yet scientific fictions can become social facts with deadly consequences. Malcolm used to say that racism was like a Cadillac, they make a new model every year. Just as it is impossible to fix a 1990s Cadillac with a 1960s owner’s manual, we will not address the racism of the 1990s and beyond with a 1960s philosophy and approach. Our challenge is to develop a civil rights vision appropriate to our own time, to the challenges presented to us by the injustices inscribed in our everyday lives through racial inequality.”
— George Lipsitz, “Libraries and Memories: Beyond White Privilege 101.”
A Vietnamese university has cancelled a 19% tuition hike in response to student protest.
Students arrived at Hong Bang University in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday morning to discover that their fees for the upcoming semester had been raised with no notice. Several hundred of them rallied all day in 95-degree heat at the university gates, snarling local traffic.
College officials met with student representatives at the end of the day, and emerged with an agreement to drop the tuition increase.
The increase was announced at a time of rising unemployment in Vietnam, as the worldwide economic crisis depresses the country’s exports.
studentactivism.net 
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