April 28, 2006
Students Arrested  in UVa Wage Protest
Seventeen students taking part in a sit-in at the University of Virginia were arrested this month after spending four days in the lobby of the president's office in a "living wage" campaign on behalf of university workers.
A similar protest on behalf of workers at the University of Vermont ended on April 14 after three days when two dozen demonstrators were evicted from a tent city on the university green.
The Virginia students want the university to raise the wages of its
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