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So there can be no going back. The particulars of the dispute are irrelevant, if not forgotten: this has become about the students themselves, and the movie of their lives in which they are now starring. The students — the minority, that is, that are en grève, and the smaller minority that are causing all the havoc — cannot actually claim to be the victims of any real injustice in the matter of the tuition fees. They cannot pretend that raising fees to the same level, after inflation, they were at 44 years ago presents some sort of unique hardship. They cannot argue they are fighting on behalf of the poor, since no student with family income of less than $100,000 would be affected.