German Universities Cope With a Novelty — Tuition

While students protest the new fees, one university rector struggles to spend the money appropriately

The past two years have not been easy for Axel Freimuth, rector of the University of Cologne.

Students have doused him with water as he walked through the campus, taken his lunch in the cafeteria, and held a two-week sit-in at his wood-paneled office in the Hauptgebäude, or main building.

Their anger at the rector arose from a controversial decision the institution

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