Faculty members at Parsons and at other area universities protested the action.
More than 15,000 students at four Egyptian universities protested on the schools' grounds.
In 2009, students at nearly a hundred universities protested Russell Athletic's closure of a Honduran factory in response to the unionization of workers.
Americans who were not alive in 1970 must find it hard to understand why students at Kent State and other universities protested so emotionally over Vietnam.
In 2004 students at Yale and other universities protested their schools' involvement with Farallon, which they alleged was involved in ventures that, at times, were not socially or environmentally responsible.
In his May 6 column, Anthony Lewis writes, "Americans who were not alive in 1970 must find it hard to understand why students at Kent State and other universities protested so emotionally over Vietnam".
The loan-forgiveness rules, which were to take effect in July, were seen as an aggressive response to widespread abuses that had been suspected for years, but a wide range of colleges, including historically black private colleges and universities, protested the rules for being too broad and punitive.
The name, "I am 132," takes after the 131 students who posted to YouTube about a university protest against the front-runner in the election, Enrique Peña Nieto.
The group had its origins among the radical elements of the German university protest movement of the 1960s, which decried the United States as an imperialist power and characterized the West German government as a fascist holdover of the Nazi era.
His university protest has again touched a point of acute sensitivity, setting off widening responses and reactions.
