A student is revising a story for the school newspaper that includes the following sentence: Student groups at Drew University w
ere angered this week when university officials announced a ban on large soft drinks on campus. What phrase could be substituted for were angered to indicate that the students' reaction was more organized?
<span>To say students were angered sounds like it was a general reaction with little action in response to the policy. In order to display an organized effort by the students against the policy a better way to say it would be that students protested the ban on large soft drinks.</span>
