Student protests in UK, Italy, Greece, Ireland: "Join the Fight"

[Hannah Bell]

IN LONDON The first sign that something is awry inside the venerable halls of London College University is a fresh red scrawl on the side of the regal entrance that simply reads, "Join the fight."

Inside, Ellen Evans, a 20-year-old English major, was doing just that, standing among sleeping bags and clothes strewn on the floor of an "occupied" auditorium. Along with tens of thousands of other British students who have undergone a political awakening in recent months, she has cast aside a life of carefree pub crawls to join what many here are calling the most widespread university demonstrations here since the Vietnam War.

But rather than bombs in foreign lands, the protests and occupations rocking campuses in Britain and in other European nations - including Greece, Italy and Ireland - are targeting fiscal austerity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120806855.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. 'London College University'? Oh dear, a newbie reporter who can't copy down a name properly

OK, I know it's petty, but the name of the place is 'University College London'. As opposed to 'King's College London'. Or, similarly, Trinity College Dublin. The London ones are all parts of the federal University of London.

Since UCL is the most prominent site of a student sit-in in the story, and is frequently referred to by its initials, any reporter that's been paying attention really ought to get this right. Looks like someone has been parachuted in at the last moment to do a rush job on a story they haven't been following.

[Starry Messenger]

2. k&r

[Poboy]

3. recommend.