Nine days ago, a group of student activists at USF, calling themselves Students for a Democratic Society (in conjunction with a nascent Occupy USF group), marched through the Tampa campus before meeting with a group of top administrators of the university to demand that a 15 percent tuition hike not go into effect next semester.
The meeting involved over 50 students and around 9 administrators, and lasted for an hour and a half, with the student activists saying they would be back this Friday to hear the school's response to that and three other demands.
That follow-up meeting took place Friday morning inside the Marshall Center, but it wasn't nearly as highly charged. This meeting involved students mainly talking within each other. A group of 4 SDS members presented their demands to Student Body President Matt Diaz and the Senate President of Student Government, Khalid J. Hassouneh.
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2011.