ITALY: University reform bill passes amid angry protests
December 1st, 2010
BY Lee Adendorff
A controversial university reform bill was passed in the Italian parliament on Tuesday despite high profile protests around the country. Tens of thousands of students occupied train stations, airports, highways and even monuments such as the leaning tower of Pisa and the Coliseum, paralysing city and inter-city traffic and at times clashing with police.
At La Sapienza University, in Rome, and in several other institutions, students occupied faculties and lessons were suspended while striking professors took to the rooftops.
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