JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: More than 100 students are in jail, facing charges stemming from the takeover of Latin America's largest university. But as Mexico City bureau chief Harris Whitbeck reports, many others are finally back in class.</s>HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN MEXICO CITY BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): Angry striking students try unsuccessfully to retake a law school building now in the hands of university authorities. Inside, students who decided to return to class celebrate the first day of school with mariachis. The 10-month takeover by students protesting tuition hikes might be over, but the conflict that crippled Latin America's largest public university is not. Thousands of students marched onto the campus, hoping to convince classmates inside to join their movement. "We aren't going to force them," says this woman. "We want to tell them we need to unite because nothing has been resolved." More than a week ago, the authorities sent in police to remove striking students from campus. While that successful sweep sparked large-scale street protests in Mexico City, it did allow university authorities to retake control of the campus. This professor says, "Coming back was like returning after being isolated on a dessert island and finding much had changed." While classes have now resumed and the university has promised for now not to raise tuition, students remain divided on how the school should be run. Many just want to go back to the books, others back to the barricades. Harris Whitbeck, CNN, Mexico City.
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