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4 Decades from '68, South Africa Remembers a Student Fight Against Apartheid

Submitted by Patrick on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 3:00am

Cape Town University, South Africa The student protests and revolutions that swept across the world in 1968 and 1969 still have a powerful effect on the people and institutions we live with and within today. In Cape Town, South Africa, it is no different. From Cape Argus [emphasis mine]:

News Roundup: 10/10/07

Submitted by Patrick on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 3:00am

Iranian Students Protest President Ahmadinejad

The strongest base of Iran's 1979 Revolution against the Shah was the university campus; once again students are agitating against a brutally authoritarian government — in the face of extreme risk. AP:

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