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The last of a group of students who had been occupying a grove of trees on the University of California Santa Cruz campus abandoned their protest site on Saturday. The protesters had been sitting in on three platforms in the redwood and oak grove since November 2007 to block construction of a biomedical facility on the site.
Three of the four protesters left the site before police arrived on Saturday morning, and the fourth was taken into custody. By noon the site had been fenced off and university employees were preparing to begin work cutting down the trees.
The student and youth riots that have caused more than one billion dollars in property damage in Greece over the last week have flared again.
On Saturday evening, exactly one week after fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot and killed by police, youths threw gasoline bombs and rocks at the station where the officer charged with the shooting was based. The violence quickly spread to other parts of Athens, and other Greek cities saw rioting that night as well.
It has been reported that police stockpiles of teargas are nearly depleted nationwide, and that the government is appealing to other nations for donations to replenish supplies.
The Daily Princetonian‘s blog has a scan up of a 1958 pamphlet for alumni about admissions policies for their children, and it’s great reading.
Jan Kemp, an English professor at the University of Georgia who exposed exploitation of student athletes in the 1980s, leading to reforms in NCAA eligibility policies, has died of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Kemp was fired by UGA in the early 1980s for refusing to inflate the grades of varsity athletes who were in some cases functionally illiterate. When she sued the university for wrongful dismissal, the university’s academic policies were themselves put on trial.
In one of the most damning pieces of evidence, an audiotape was introduced on which the head of remedial studies at UGA could be heard telling fellow professors that student athletes were “a kind of raw material in the production of some goods to be sold as whatever product, and they get nothing in return.”
Kemp was reinstated as a result of that trial, and awarded more than one million dollars in damages. The verdict led to the resignation of the university’s president, and to new academic standards for athletes at UGA and in the NCAA as a whole.
Ken Blackwell, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, is calling for the RNC to devote “unprecedented” financial resources to the College Republicans “to build vibrant College Republican chapters on every major university campus in the nation.”
The president of Carnegie Mellon’s College Republican chapter is telling him not to bother.
Throwing money at the College Republicans “will do nothing to win over young voters,” says Aaron Marks, and it may actually make things worse.
Until the GOP starts conducting more thoughtful outreach efforts, running younger candidates, and letting go of demographically toxic positions such as opposition to gay marriage, he says, it will never win the youth vote.
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