Its success and a national student rally of 100,000 held in the same year is usually considered to mark the start of the movement.
The passion among students may have been stronger this year in part because they were celebrating their first success in organizing a nationwide student rally.
Nevertheless, a handful of student rallies have been allowed to take place, under heavy military guard.
Thousands of university students in Iran turned a student rally into anti-government protests.
They had met at a student rally in support of the Palestinian cause and been recruited as warriors of the jihad that same day.
This led to a student rally on the St. Charles bridge with signs in support of the 2004 referendum.
Mishra led student rallies and a campus strike.
And I haven't forgotten the ad hoc student rally in support of those players who had not been apprehended by the police.
These goals were not announced at the student rally.
There have been several student rallies, urging an end to the strike but generally supporting the faculty's position, since the day the semester officially began.