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Jacob Blumenfeld, a member of the New School In Exile activist group, was arrested outside the home of New School president Bob Kerrey at 3:55 am on Thursday morning. Blumenfeld had allegedly been spraypainting the words “Bye Bob” on Kerrey’s front door.
Sarah Paley, Kerrey’s wife, said that Blumenfeld and two other individuals had attracted police attention because they wearing ski masks in mild weather. Blumenfeld, the only one of the three who was apprehended, is reportedly facing five criminal counts.
The New School In Exile announced in February that they would “shut down” the university on April 1 if Kerrey and New School vice president Jim Murtha did not resign by that date. Their deadline is now sixteen days away.
A Friday morning post on the NSIE blog made the following declaration: “We stand together, We have Solidarity, We do what we do because of love for each other and love for our future.”
In a new investigative article on a company that writes students’ papers for cash, the Chronicle of Higher Education outed four of the company’s customers.
The article, which is behind the Chronicle‘s subscription wall, gives the name, college, and field of two undergraduates and two grad students, including a PhD candidate in public policy who, they say, outsourced the literature review section of his dissertation to the paper mill Essay Writers. The article also names that student’s blog, which was last updated in July 2008.
The Chronicle was able to identify the students through personal information they posted to the company’s private website.
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.
Finnish students have been occupying the main administration building of the University of Helsinki since Friday.
Approximately three hundred students took over the building on Friday evening to protest a new education law that would open up Finnish colleges and universities to greater business influence. The occupation followed a day of coordinated protests across Finland.
Students staged an overnight sit-in in the same space in late February. According to one news report, the February protesters discussed the education bill with a vice-chancellor and “served coffee to the returning staff” before leaving the building.
Eleven insights into the future of education from the Hacking Education conference.
UC Berkeley students protest student government bringing a chain fast food restaurant to campus.
Video from a SUNY tuition hike protest.
Texas Sikhs put fellow students in turbans to raise cultural awareness.
Vermont is moving to let some 17-year-olds vote in state primaries.
An angry audience member brandishing a Bible and a copy of Atlas Shrugged rushed Bill Ayers during a campus talk yesterday.
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