Abstract
This paper focuses on the political positions that the university student movement has taken during the Argentine democratic transition. Moreover, we analyze -through the press- the several conflicts and proposals that the university students have had regarding the university admission policies that were implemented during the 1976-1983 dictatorship last years and during the democratic transition period (1982-1983). After the Malvinas’ war end, the student movement started to protest in order to get a different university admission policy: more open, without academic restrictions and with free tuition. Those demands had gotten diverse responses by the military government, which show its weakness and they also illustrate the beginning of the democratic transition period. We take into account three dimensions to analyze this process: the public universities, the university student movement, and the university admission policies. We look at three newspapers (Clarín, La Nación and La Prensa) to study the student protests, their demands, and the policies that the government and the universities has taken during those years regarding the university admission.
Keywords:
university; students; free access; Argentina; press