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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
Police forcibly dispersed a student demonstration in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on Wednesday, sparking a retaliatory riot and two more days of protests.
Students from the University of Allahabad, one of India’s oldest universities, were protesting the administration’s refusal to hold elections for AU’s student government, which was dissolved two years ago. Police charged the crowd wielding long wooden canes known as lathi, injuring more than a dozen demonstrators.
Students later took to the streets, vandalizing a number of cars parked in the area. On Thursday police returned to campus in an attempt to arrest 12 of the participants in the Wednesday protest, but left having taken only two into custody.
Students burned a minister in effigy on campus today as protests against the university and the police continued.
Sunday evening update: Protesting students briefly blocked railway tracks in Allahahabad on Friday, and demonstrations continued over the weekend.
“I read once, passingly, about a man named Shakespeare. I only read about him passingly, but I remember one thing he wrote that kind of moved me. He put it in the mouth of Hamlet, I think, it was, who said, ‘To be or not to be.’ He was in doubt about something — whether it was nobler in the mind of man to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune — moderation — or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. And I go for that. If you take up arms, you’ll end it, but if you sit around and wait for the one who’s in power to make up his mind that he should end it, you’ll be waiting a long time. And in my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built, and the only way it’s going to be built is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone — I don’t care what color you are — as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”
–Malcolm X, speaking at Oxford University on December 3, 1964, eighty days before his death.
The fall semester began this morning — one week late — at Michigan’s Oakland University.
Yesterday a judge ordered OU faculty and administrators to begin round-the-clock negotiations to end the university’s week-old strike, an this morning at 3:30 am the two sides reached a deal.
The agreement will have to be put to a vote of the faculty, and that vote may not happen until next month, but in the meantime faculty and students are heading back to the classroom.
On the first day of classes since last Friday’s protest at Howard University, journalists from the Hilltop, Howard’s student newspaper, sat down with university president Sidney A. Ribeau.
Ribeau went through the protest’s demands point-by-point. He said he would implement a couple of them, and that a few had already been addressed. For most, though, he said that he needed more information, or that the proposal wasn’t feasible for logistical or financial reasons.
Leaders of the Howard University Student Association (HUSA), which helped organize the protest, were invited to meet with Ribeau yesterday as well, but they declined, saying that public dialogue, not closed-door meetings, were what was needed.
Last week the protesters set today as Ribeau’s deadline to respond to their demands.
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