July 27, 2009
France's Professors Vow to Continue Fight Against Reform Efforts
Lionel Bonaventure, AFP, Getty Images
Demonstrators in Paris in May 2009 hold a banner that reads, "Save the university!" Faculty members and students say government reforms are an attempt to exert more control over higher education.
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Lionel Bonaventure, AFP, Getty Images
Demonstrators in Paris in May 2009 hold a banner that reads, "Save the university!" Faculty members and students say government reforms are an attempt to exert more control over higher education.
Paris
Spray-painted banners fluttering in the windows of a central Paris building proclaim that "universities are not an enterprise" and "knowledge is not merchandise."
A shadowy figure on a Metro platform darts forward to affix rainbow-tinted stickers to a departing train, protesting against government higher-education reforms and warning that they will cost institutions their independence.
Even amid Paris's legendary summer slowdown, the anger that led to crippling campus protests
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