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A crowd of students from California State University Stanislaus that the Modesto Bee estimated at “several dozen” spent a chunk of Saturday afternoon at the home of CSUS president Hamid Shirvani.
To be precise, they were on his front lawn.
One member of the group knocked on Shirvani’s door and got no answer, so the crowd spent an hour chanting and talking to reporters.
The protest was conceived after a meeting of student activists from a number of CSU campuses. It represents the latest step in the expansion of California budget protests, which for most of the semester were concentrated primarily in the University of California, to the Cal State system.
Asked about university reports that someone rang Shirvani’s door “multiple times” the following morning, protester Barbara Olave said, “that’s not us.”
I’ve thrown together an index of last week’s Campus Progress panel on college affordability and the UC student movement, which featured myself (Angus Johnston), Victor Sanchez of the University of California Student Association, University of California professor Bruce Cain, and Pedro de la Torre and Erica Williams of Campus Progress.
“Student movements are signs of realities greater than themselves.”
–Mir Hossein Mousavi, statement commemorating Iran’s Student Day, December 7, 2009.
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