**Ohio union workers protest Senate Bill 5 at state capitol**

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — More than a thousand demonstrators from around the state bottlenecked at the doors of Ohio’s Statehouse Tuesday in support of killing — or at least maiming — the controversial, allegedly union-busting Ohio Senate Bill 5.

If passed, SB5 would abolish collective bargaining rights, the ability to negotiate on behalf of a union.

Critics of the bill, however, say SB5 will essentially dismantle the foundation of a union and eventually end up annihilating unions in Ohio altogether.

State troopers controlled access to the building and patrolled the capitol’s hallways, watching approximately 1,000 demonstrators let into the building.

Troopers barred anyone else from entering, leaving hundreds of protesters demanding entry.

_By Eamon Queeney_
_The News Record_

**LGBT Resource Center looks into gender-neutral bathrooms**

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS- The University of Kansas LGBT Resource Center has established a new gender-neutral bathroom task force this semester.

The task force is conducting a survey on the amount of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus as well as single-stalled bathrooms that can be converted into gender-neutral bathrooms. The task force wants to create more campus bathrooms that serve the diversity of university students and their needs.

“There are restrooms that can be easily altered with changing the sign on the door,” LGBT Resource Center Coordinator Diane Genther said.

Genther said more gender-neutral bathrooms would help transgender students, disabled students with a different gendered attendant and parents with different gendered children.

_By Adam Strunk_
_The University Daily Kansan_

**Protests in Puerto Rico not reflective of U.S. democracy**

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS- Police brutality, constitutional violations and government sponsored propaganda are rampant and currently destroying civil liberties in Puerto Rico.

Although nearly everyone is aware of the recent uprisings in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, the injustices being suffered by Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens, are hardly mentioned in mainstream media.

Students and faculty at the University of Puerto Rico have been holding “civil disobedience” strikes since Dec.14 in protest of a recently imposed $800 fee.

Approximately 50 percent of the population in Puerto Rico is living at or beneath the federally declared poverty level. The flat fee combined with dissolution of fee waivers, previously available to honor, athlete and low-income students, will prevent thousands of students from studying this semester.

By Jacqueline Hall
The Daily Collegian