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Starting today, I’ll be posting highlights from the previous week’s twitter feed every weekend. I won’t repost every tweet, and I’ll mostly be concentrating on links — links back to this blog, and also links to other sites.

Here’s the highlights of the last week. Follow @studentactivism on Twitter to get it all as it comes through…

Links to this blog:

U of Michigan professor accused of assaulting student sex worker is back in the classroom: http://bit.ly/2IGEiM

Undercover state police raid dorm party after Facebook page tips them off to underage drinking: http://bit.ly/NjfzG

Howard University student paper meets w/HU prez after#HUProtest, student govt says “no thanks”: http://bit.ly/OB2QG

Oakland University faculty & admin reach deal to end strike after judge orders round-the-clock talks: http://bit.ly/wvPcM

Quote of the Day: Malcolm X at Oxford University, December 3, 1964. http://bit.ly/PGwXr

Someone once said activists should avoid the mistakes of the past and commit the mistakes of the future. #4change

Here’s that “mistakes of the future” quote in full: http://bit.ly/s1Drs #4change

Student govt advocates in India attacked by police, sparking riot and 3-days of campus protests: http://bit.ly/pi4c9

Links to other sites:

Via @JayBeeStarsky, A Pennsylvania college’s tips for surviving a campus mass shooting: http://su.pr/29n457

RT @CoCoSouthLA: SCYEA youth speak about student activism at SF State: http://bit.ly/IHVMs (via @ucLActivist323)

Longtime student/antiwar activist Tom Hayden interviewed on Vietnam and Afghanistan: http://bit.ly/4E4exG

RT @thecurvature: New Post: Some Thoughts on Tucker Max http://bit.ly/wvcYT

U of Wyoming to name center for international students after Dick Cheney: http://bit.ly/12umnR

Two Cal State students are suing over fee increases: http://bit.ly/ADZbp

Public HS coach takes team to church, baptizes them: http://bit.ly/NP4rF

Joe Wilson was re-elected with only 53.6% of the vote in 2008. This is going to get fun quick. http://bit.ly/US2uF

Suddenly, young people are flocking to Twitter: http://bit.ly/2KqfkZ

Yale can’t uncover source of creepy email ranking new female students’ sexual attractiveness: http://bit.ly/rVzy1

This @womanistmusings post is a perfect analysis of the Caster Semenya media firestorm: http://bit.ly/x4Kb5

RT @zephoria: I (heart) @theonion: “Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids”http://bit.ly/1hpJtV

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