61. State Treasury Department spokesman Bob Gentzel said that aside from tuition increases, recent changes that have made the plan easier to use have attracted more investors. 62. Students have vowed to continue their protests, which focused Friday on alleged political corruption and tuition increases. 63. Students protesting tuition increases rioted in downtown Ankara Monday, a day after students clashed with police in Istanbul. 64. That proposed tuition increase -- the first in decades -- was what originally sparked the strike. 65. The protest was against tuition increases and had started out as a peaceful march through the capital by about three-thousand students. 66. The protesters want an end to the strike, which began as a protest to tuition increases and several reform measures. 67. The strike began as a protest to tuition increases and several reform measures instituted by UNAM President Francisco Barnes de Castro. 68. The university backed down on the tuition increase, but students continued the strike to press other demands, including greater student control over how the university is run. 69. The university backed down on the tuition increase, but a small core of radical students pressed ahead with the strike. 70. Tuition increases this steep defy memory in Tennessee, though they are part of a trend that has been growing worse for a decade. |