Ricardo Arduengo / AP

A university student protests as riot police stand guard at the main gate of the University of Puerto Rico during a student strike in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 15. Students are on indefinite strike to protest an $800 yearly fee that takes effect next year to help reduce the system's budget deficit. Students already pay $49 per credit.

Puerto Rican university students protest tuition fee hikes

By Carissa Ray

From all of the protests springing up around the globe, it would seem like the "poor college student" is fed up and not willing to take the tuition fee hikes that many countries are adopting.

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