Students at Concord University last month protested a proposed 6% hike in tuition. The University's Board of Governors was meeting on campus, and students made their opposition known. The Charleston Gazette:

Concord University students played Darth Vader's theme song as members of the university's board of governors walked through a crowd of 300 student-protesters last Tuesday.

Wearing red T-shirts and holding signs stating, "If we can't pay, we won't stay" and "Higher education, not higher tuition," the students' message to board members was clear: a proposed 6 percent tuition and fees increase was unacceptable.

By day's end, they thought they had at least partially accomplished their mission.

The bo...

Daily Kos had a post yesterday describing an unsettling move by folks on the far-right to reassert themselves on a campus only now starting to recover from its history as a right-wing institution. The jist:

Here's the deal: Dartmouth has an unusually small board of trustees, with half the trustees historically elected by the alumni. In recent years, a group of alums has organized to elect hard right trustees, with the intent of rolling back two decades of Dartmouth's movement away from its infamously conservative past. Because the board of trustees is so small, it is vulnerable to the election of just a few people. (By way of comparison, Colgate University, with 2,750 students, has 34 trustees...

Human rights? An end to war? An end to environmental destruction? Members of Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Florida are hunger striking for all three...

SDSers have been working for a year now, fighting to get their University's endowment — their own tuition dollars — invested in an ethical way. From their press release:

Our administration is not impressed by a recent student government referendum question we put on the ballot, which showed that 82% of voters support our proposal. Nor is it impressed with the list of other schools who have similar Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) policies, including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia University. The only thing that actually does impr...

To all of you who want to end the war and bring the troops home now...

For Student Power has kindly agreed to host a zine that I worked on entitled "Don't Sign Your Life Away: Some things to consider before or after joining the military." I've included two versions:

--One has the pages in sequential order
--The other is formatted to be copied as a double-sided pamphlet.
Feel free to makes copies and distribute it.

The zine's purpose is to both counter-recruit and support soldiers who resist. Many student anti-war groups have instinctively gravitated toward these tactics, but I thought it might be helpful to summarize them here:

Counter-Recruitment: Counter-recruitment means not only talking people out of the joining the military but also making life hard for military recruiters themselv...