Here’s some of the stuff that happened in the world this week…
On Monday, two hundred French students blockaded the entrance to the main campus of the Sorbonne, forcing administrators to cancel classes at that university for the day. The students were protesting planned budget cuts at France’s state universities.
On Tuesday, thousands of students took to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya to protest police killings, including the shooting of a student demonstrator last week. (Here’s an interesting critical take on that protest from a professor at the University of Nairobi.)
On Wednesday, students at West Virginia University protested a speech on campus by J. Phillipe Rushton, who has claimed that race is linked to intelligence and other cognitive and behavioral traits. The same day, five hundred students at the University of Liverpool protested planned department closures.
On Friday, forty students from Grand Valley State University in Michigan staged a four-hour campus rally to protest the shooting of a GVSU student in a police raid on an off-campus apartment on Wednesday night, while — as I noted earlier — three hundred Finnish students occupied the main administration building of the University of Helsinki.
There was, of course, much more. That’s just a taste.

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March 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Suzanne
I also happen to know this Monday in Sacramento there will be a protest for those in the CSU university system against budget cuts. FYI.
March 14, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Angus Johnston
Thanks for the heads-up, Suzanne. If you have a link to more info, I’d be happy to help spread the word.
March 14, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Suzanne
Sure, I read it in my school paper:
http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2009/03/12/News/March.Intended.To.Protest.Budget.Cuts.To.Csu.Tuition.Increases-3669850.shtml
March 14, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Angus Johnston
Excellent, thanks. We’ll post something about it tomorrow.
March 19, 2009 at 12:47 pm
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