ATHENS – Students living in near-squalid dormitory rooms at the National Technical University of Athens dared Education Minister Costas Gavroglou to spend one night there to see how bad it is.
They put out a series of photographs showing destroyed communal areas, broken windows, rusted water pipes, moldy walls and broken toilets as an illustration of what they’re being forced to live in but there was no response from his office.
“Just a few photos suffice to illustrate the situation,” Nikos Fasas, a member of the Students’ Struggle Front, told Kathimerini, showing off the pictures.
The students have little leverage though because the demand for dorm rooms remains high because of an eight-year-long economic crisis with ministry data showing the number of rooms at dorms or hotels rented out by universities represent just 9 percent of the 150,000 or so students studying away from home.
The ruling Radical Left SYRIZA wants virtually no standards at universities and a former Education Minister said the party doesn’t believe excellence in education is a virtue.
ATHENS - A joint investigation by Greek and Spanish police, United States Homeland Security and Europol has led to busting open a ring of criminals trafficking women for sex although brothels are allowed but regulated with conditions.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two months after his historic ouster as House speaker, Republican Rep.
LONDON (AP) — The British government apologized Wednesday to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans who died after a stadium crush 34 years ago, as it introduced a charter it said will sharply diminish the chances that others will endure the kinds of injustices they suffered.
CAIRO (AP) — A cargo ship broke down in Egypt's Suez Canal on Wednesday and crashed into a bridge over the crucial waterway, authorities said, adding that the incident did not disrupt traffic through the canal.
NEW YORK (AP) — The heads of the nation's biggest banks say there are reasons to be concerned about the health of U.
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