If you thought the end of the school year meant no more grass-roots student agitation until fall, you thought wrong. Not gonna happen. Not this year. Yesterday students in California and Wisconsin, two of the country’s most active states, held targeted protests, and there’s more on the horizon.

In California, students at UCLA staged a campus march and sit-in to protest plans to suspend free tutoring services at the university’s Covel Commons. The group, who had timed their action to get noisy only during scheduled breaks between final exams, met with a vice chancellor and took steps to keep the pressure on in the weeks to come.

More on what’s happening in Wisconsin later today…

Stockton, California resident Kenneth Wright says a team of federal agents sent by the Department of Education busted down his door without warning yesterday morning, handcuffing him in the back of a cop car for more than six hours. And, he says, it was all because his estranged wife defaulted on her student loans.

The feds, meanwhile, deny that the raid was conducted over a student loan default, but confirm that the squad was sent by the DOE. The department’s Office of the Inspector General, a spokesperson says, “conducts about 30-35 search warrants a year on issues such as bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds.”

Heavy summer teaching load and other obligations kept me from getting a real post up today, but I did finally take the Student Activism Tumblr account live with some thoughts on the Anthony Weiner scandal.

If you’ve got suggestions for must-follow Tumblrers, let me know in comments.

“The events we’re seeing are happening because this university is not a community of students and teachers as it should be. Instead it’s an institution run by professional managers who have other interests. The security police on campus should serve the students and faculty. Instead they are hostile and contemptuous towards them, and often harass them. As for the administration, it should be in the employ of students and faculty, not the other way around. The students have rebelled against the administration because it identifies itself with all the outside forces that the students oppose.”

–Harvard professor Jeremy Larner, 1970

Between end-of-semester stuff, beginning-of-summer-semester stuff, a high school reunion, an out-of-town visitor, and a weird low-level illness, I’ve kind of gotten lured away from the site recently. But posting resumes this afternoon, and there are all sorts of great new pieces coming this week. See you in a bit…

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