Monday, Nov 14

It was only a matter of time before the Occupy protests going on all over the United States, focused in major cities, made it's way onto college campuses. There's an article featured in the Nation section of the NYT today about this happening through a group called "Occupy Colleges". Occupy Colleges is a "national group coordinating college-based protesters" and has put up encampments at a handful of colleges throughout the United States including Harvard and various University of California schools. The article explains how the goal of Occupy College organizers is to get more students involved.Several groups of students are protesting tuition increases at their respective schools, but many of these protests have been broken up by police officers, results in arrests oftentimes. There are, however, some groups of protestors that have withstood eviction from their properties, including groups in Oregon where people "staved off eviction on Saturday with the help of hundreds of supporters who poured into two city parks near each other." Ultimately, like I said at the beginning of my blog, it was only a matter of time before students starting protesting as well on their own campuses because there are always things on college campuses that can be improved upon, such as tuition increases. It will be interesting to see how long all of this lasts!