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According to the London School of Economics Gaza protest blog, two new British university occupations in response to Israeli policy began on Wednesday, at the University of Strathclyde and Manchester University.
This brings to at least seventeen the number of such occupations since mid-January, all of which — with the exception of Manchester University — have ended. (Other sources say there have been as many as 22 actions.)
The activist group Stop the War is hosting a meeting of protest organizers from around Britain tomorrow in London.
An Irish student march against new tuition fees yesterday drew as many as 15,000 participants.
The march, sponsored by the Union of Students in Ireland, took place as government officials suggested that a tax on high-income university graduates might take the place of tuition charges going forward.
The Union of Students in Ireland is sponsoring a huge protest against new student fees at the nation’s colleges and universities.
The Dublin protest, underway at this hour, is expected to draw tens of thousands of students. Check back for more details.
A British student wonders what I’ve been wondering: Why aren’t the UK student protests over Israel’s Gaza policies getting more ink?
Last semester, Brenda Councillor was a student senator at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, and a vocal critic of university president Linda Sue Warner.
This semester she’s an alumna.
And she’s still not quite sure how it happened.
Councillor had one required course left to take as the fall semester ended. She was enrolled for the spring, and settled into her dorm room. But over the holidays, the registrar called her to congratulate her on her graduation.
The university was waiving her final required course and refunding her spring tuition and fees. They were also locking her out of her dorm room, shutting down her student email account, and mailing her a (misspelled) diploma.
When Councillor, who had circulated a petition in the fall demanding President Warner’s removal, wrote to the university’s vice president for academic affairs to ask why she had been involuntarily graduated, he blew her off.
“My priority is working with current Haskell Indian Nations University students,” he wrote. “Your concerns as a recent graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University in American Indian Studies will not be considered at this time.”
Ouch.
11:40 am Update: Linda Sue Warner, the president of Haskell Indian Nations University, has been summoned to Washington DC for a meeting with her university’s regents and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
studentactivism.net 
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