Several Hundred Students Strike at UMass-Amherst to Protest Fees and Voice Concerns

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Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst began a two-day strike on Thursday to protest what they see as administrators' indifference to their concerns.

Undergraduates and graduate students planned the strike together. They stated four demands: a drop in student fees, more attention to diversity, the withdrawal of police officers from dormitories, and more student say in the use of campus space.

"The dynamic between the people who study at the school

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