NATION IN BRIEF : MASSACHUSETTS : University Students Boycott Classes
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Most of the 25,000 students at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst boycotted classes and several hundred of them set up picket lines around campus to protest repeated budget cuts in higher education. The students, joined by some professors, began picketing outside several academic buildings at 8 a.m. and said the strike will continue until the Legislature meets their demands for a progressive tax package and stops cuts in education funding, including no additional faculty or staff layoffs.
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