With a steady rain pouring down on their heads, about 10 activists — some of them students — marched in front of the USF-St. Pete campus this afternoon, protesting 15 percent tuition hikes that undergrad students are facing.
The meeting and demonstration was one of several that are being planned throughout the state this week at universities in Gainesville, Tallahassee, and others in the state system.
Monday's protest was led by Tyler Crawford, an English major who graduated from the school in May, and will return as a graduate student next fall. He said the campaign on the St. Pete campus will escalate in January.
"That will lead to a meeting with the administration," he said. He intends to ask USF-St. Pete Chancellor Margaret Sullivan to sign on to a pledge saying that she supports the students in their opposition to the increases.
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2011.