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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.
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.
As of 11:30 pm on Monday, talks to resolve America’s first faculty strike of the 2008-09 academic year were still ongoing.
Michigan’s Oakland University, which had been scheduled to begin the fall semester last Thursday, has yet to start classes because of a strike by the local chapter of the AAUP. The two sides are said to be close to a deal, however, and a message on the OU website encourages students to check back in the early morning to learn whether classes will be held on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning update: Oakland University faculty and administrators suspended strike negotiations at 4:30 this morning, after overnight talks failed to produce an agreement. The two sides are scheduled to come to the table again early this afternoon, but this morning OU announced that it would be seeking a court order to force faculty back to work.
Tuesday evening update: Representatives of OU’s faculty and administration are meeting in court tomorrow morning for hearing’s on the university’s claim that the Oakland strike is illegal. Classes for Wednesday have been officially cancelled.
Thursday morning update: Classes are back in session after the two sides reached a tentative deal last night.
The PA State Police sent fifteen cops dressed as college students to a Haverford dorm party Thursday night, citing more than thirty students for underage drinking.
Drinking in the dorms is allowed for over-21s at Haverford, and the party was advertised on Facebook. But cops planned the raid after checking out the profiles of students who’d put themselves down as planning to attend and finding that many of them were underage.
Police showed up at the party 10:30, hoping to arrive as it was getting underway, but by the time they got there most of the alcohol was gone. They hung around for half an hour, observing, then announced themselves and started asking partiers for ID. They detained about forty students, and issued citations to 31 of those.
One interesting tidbit: The cops didn’t give the university a heads-up before crashing the party. Haverford’s president, Stephen G. Emerson, learned about the raid when a student called him after the police started asking for ID, and Emerson arrived on the scene himself about half an hour later.
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