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1. If you had to write an article today,or to tell someone in the year 3000 about what happened in the
world in the 1990's with respect to student power or student protest — what would you tell them?
2. This text is from History Today (February 1980). Which of the following points of information would
you expect to find in the text? Place a (+) in front of the information you can reasonably expect to find and a
(?) in front of information you are less certain to find.
__1. Where student power first got its start
__2. When student power first got its start
__3. What conditions or steps led to the rise of student power
__4. How student power manifested itself (What forms it took)
__5. Whether student power was the same everywhere — at all universities
__6. Whether there were any changes in student power over time
__7. How student power in the Middle Ages compares with student power today
Read the text and indicate where you located information about any of the above topics (put the paragraph
and/or line numbers after each topic) . What additional topics does the text discuss?
II. Student Power — Review Questions — Para. 1 -3
1. According to para.l, there were «important dissimilarities»
(1.6) between________and_____________.
2. List some of these dissimilarities:
i.
ii.
iii.
3. How did the students of the Middle Ages view the function of university?
4. What was the purpose of medieval student rebellion? (How was it similar to or different from student
activities today?) Para.4-9
5. At which university and in which century did student power first manifest itself? i. university:________;
ii. century:____________.
6. What were the two main factors which led to the establishment of the student guilds?
7. Was the original intention of the student organizations the turn-over of the university? yes/no? Quote from
the text to justify your answer. Lines:_______ (Quote relevant words)
8. Did the university doctors willingly accept the form student power took? (Yes) (No) Why (or why not)?
9. What characteristic of medieval students makes it easier to understand why the students were able to gain
so much control over the universities?
10. Para. 10 — True/False -Justify your answer by quoting relevant words or phrases from the text. (Give
first and last word and line numbers).
__ 1. Teachers were able to participate and vote in the student government system.
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__ 2. Students chose their own theachers for the university staff.
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__ 3. The student rector was in charge of all teaching matters.
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__ 4. Lecturers were not held responsible for laws decided upon by the students.
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__ 5. Teachers set the schedules and determined the course content.
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__ 6. Students were obliged to boycott a lecturer who had outstanding fines to pay.