Students Have New Reasons To Protest

Last week's college protests played out in color, and that was not the only difference. There were hundreds of students at various California campuses, generally not thousands, and no arrests. The students' concerns were not profound disputes like the war in Vietnam or the civil rights movement but something more prosaic: The relentlessly rising cost of education. Tom Hayden, the former California legislator who knows a little about protest, could see the contrast but still found something moving in last week's low-key uprising. He was speaking of the heightened competitive and economic pressures of college and what those have done to the time in life that is supposed to be open to the occasional protest, well-conceived or not. Read more at:
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