activism

RNC Student Arrest Roundup

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - September 5, 2008

A number of student journalists and activists were arrested Monday. more >>

Two UC-Santa Cruz Researchers Victims of Firebombing

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - August 4, 2008

Authorities believe scientists were targeted because of their lab work involving animals. more >>

Law Schools Protest 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - June 30, 2008

Only two schools continue to take "dramatic" and "principled" stance against the military policy. more >>

Tree-Sitters and UC-Berkeley Both Claim Legal Win

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - June 19, 2008

Judge says building injunction remains, but only until school clears up handful of minor compliance issues. more >>

Berkeley Police Cut Supply Lines to Tree-Sitters

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - June 17, 2008

School attempts final push to remove protesters from atop treetops. more >>

Controversy Over Art Center's Gehry Expansion

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - June 16, 2008

Critics say money should go to scholarships and teaching, not a $50 million building. more >>

Berkeley Students Rally Against Asian Language Cuts

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - May 9, 2008

Hundreds of UC-Berkeley students rallied to spare the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from cuts. more >>

Trail Mix: This Week's Protests Edition

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - April 24, 2008

Students protest at Youngstown State University, Webster University, Michigan State University, and at Evergreen State College. more >>

Trail Mix: Protest Edition

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - April 7, 2008

Students protest at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Geneseo, Penn State, and the University of Utah. more >>

Minnesota Protest Results in 16 Arrests

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - March 28, 2008

A handful of students were among those charged in the somewhat tardy protests. more >>

Rally Addresses Basketball and Budget Cuts

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - March 27, 2008

At California State-Fullerton, a celebration of the team's short but admirable run in the NCAA tournament (its first in 30 years) ended in a spasm of indignation over the budget cuts. more >>

Instructors and Students Plan Walkouts

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - March 25, 2008

The former want a salary bump; the latter, steady tuition. more >>

Antiwar Protesters Mark 5th Anniversary of Iraq War

By Kent Garber - Nation & World - March 19, 2008

Small, largely youthful crowds demonstrate their anger not just with Bush but with Congress. more >>

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. more >>

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. more >>

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. more >>

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. more >>

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. more >>

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.. more >>

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. more >>

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. more >>

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.. more >>

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. more >>

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 . more >>