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Tree-Sitter Update: The Broken and Naked Edition
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 13, 2007
UC-Berkeley's protest takes a turn for the weird this week.
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Like Dutch Elm Disease, Tree-Sitting Spreads to Santa Cruz
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 9, 2007
UC-Santa Cruz tree-sitters protested the expansion of a biomedical sciences facility into a redwood forest while their supporters allegedly scuffled with police.
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UC-Berkeley Tree-Sitter Update
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 30, 2007
A county judge amended his original court order and has called for the removal of all protesters atop trees scheduled to be chopped down for an athletic center at UC-Berkeley.
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Iranian President Speaks; He’s Kind of a Big Deal
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 24, 2007
The circus has descended upon Columbia University this week, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Monday speech rained controversy, protesters, angry fliers, reporters, and Geraldo Rivera onto the school's New York City campus.
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A Morbid Protesting Trend?
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 17, 2007
More than 1,000 miles from the massive antiwar protest on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, around 30 University of Nebraska students staged their own die-in protest—lyingstill on the ground—as football fans streamed into the much-hyped, nationally televised Nebraska-University of Southern California game Saturday.
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Bad News for Campus Campers
By Jackie Mantey -
The Paper Trail
- July 31, 2007
UC-Santa Barbara's chancellor alleviated two of the administration's most irritating problems in one fell swoop by banning camping on school property, reports the Daily Nexus..
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Stirring Up Trouble Instead of Miso Soup
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- July 5, 2007
Love thy neighbor, unless your neighbor is a popular sushi restaurant that is allegedly destroying your historic apartment building. A loveless Lawrence resident has organized a boycott against the expansion of the Wa Japanese Restaurant, claiming the construction has caused upwards of $20,000 of damage to the building he lives in, the University Daily Kansan of the University of Kansas reports.
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In Santa Barbara, Grading Papers Outside = Protest
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- June 27, 2007
Teaching assistants at UC-Santa Barbara held a "grade-in," conducting their work out in the open to showcase the "excessive" workloads caused by burgeoning class size, the Daily Nexus reports. "We wanted to emphasize the fact that we are workers, a fact which we feel is often lost to the university," said one of the protesters.
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Prospect of New Hooters Falls Flat for Some Locals
By Jackie Mantey -
The Paper Trail
- June 13, 2007
Local murders and a drunk-driving epidemic pale in comparison with the atrocities committed by a restaurant that serves "two kinds of buns"—or at least that's what one sarcastic Texas A&M Battalion columnist argues..
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Purdue President: "I Urge Them to Discontinue the Strike"
The Paper Trail
- December 13, 2006
Citing "the business standards Purdue observes," University President Martin Jischke announced yesterday that he will not buckle under the pressure of the 10 or so students who have been fasting for 27 days, refusing food until Jischke signs an anti-sweatshop agreement. Protesters' responses were muddled, perhaps due to the fact that they've been starving themselves for almost a month.
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Purdue Student Protesters Have Starved Themselves for 25 Days
The Paper Trail
- December 12, 2006
Ten Purdue students reached Day 25 yesterday of a hunger strike meant to encourage Purdue to adopt a new anti-sweatshop initiative. The program would require that three quarters of the factories the university's apparel producers work with pay employees a living wage, Inside Higher Ed reports .
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You Gotta Fight for Your Right--to Study
The Paper Trail
- December 11, 2006
University of Texas students spent their Friday night/Saturday morning sitting in a library, staying 15 minutes past the 2 a.m.
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To Protest New Stadium, Students Vow to Live in Oak Trees
The Paper Trail
- December 6, 2006
Today will be the fifth day that activists live in oak trees surrounding the site of a stadium to be built on UC-Berkeley's campus, the Daily Californian reports. The activists, including one recent Berkeley alum, told the Californian that they'll stay in the trees despite a statement yesterday from the California Board of Regents vowing to support the new center.
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