Students at NYU don’t like the fact that their application asks if a person has ever been convicted of a crime.

Gothamist reports.

NYU Students Are Staging A Sit-In To Demand That The University ‘Abolish The Box’

Dozens of New York University students and community members have been occupying the Kimmel Center for University Life since yesterday evening, demanding that the school stop making applicants disclose whether they’ve ever been convicted of a crime.

Like many universities, NYU uses the Common Application, which requires applicants to check a box if they have ever been found guilty or convicted of a crime. The advocates currently staging a sit-in at the student center are demanding that the school go completely “box blind,” meaning that it would opt out of receiving that data from the Common Application.

Some two dozen students stayed in the Kimmel Center overnight, though it technically closed at midnight. They were told that they might face disciplinary action by staying all night, as they would be trespassing, and public safety officers stationed themselves by the doors to the center and at the top of the stairs near the turnstiles leading to the restrooms. According to Emma Pliskin, a 2015 NYU alumna and an organizer with the Incarceration to Education Coalition (IEC), the officers prevented students from accessing the restrooms, and would not let them back in the building if they left to use a restroom elsewhere.