If the school has any guts or brains they’ll expel every single one of them.

Campus Reform reported.

UMN students occupy Regents meeting to demand free tuition

A throng of leftist protesters at the University of Minnesota (UMN) chanted their way into handcuffs Friday as they attempted to hijack a board of regents meeting and stop a tuition increase.

Moments after the public Board of Regents meeting began, students in the packed audience walked up to the front of the meeting room, waving homemade signs and two large banners painted with the words “Students Fight Tuition Hikes” and “Chop From The Top.”

Cameras were rolling as students lined up to shout their disapproval of board actions, saying they were neglectful of marginalized, working-class students. The protesters also loudly chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, tuition hikes have got to go.”

Most board members promptly left the room without engaging the protesters, though Chairman Dean E. Johnson remained, repeatedly asking the protesters to stop. After the protesters refused to disperse, police confiscated banners and arrested six. Those who were arrested kept chanting as police escorted them past other protesters and out of the building.

The meeting eventually reconvened, though the protests continued in a courtyard near the university building where the Regents met. There, students explained why they were protesting, and the protesters who had been arrested were released and returned to their friends.

Students held a banner that read “Nothing about us, without us, is for us.” This statement served as the theme for the protest.

The leader of the protesters, Joanna Nunez, led the group in the chant, “Students live in poverty, this is an atrocity.”

Some faculty held signs and joined the students in protest, as well.

One protester said she was part of the Anti-War Committee and reminded students that tuition wasn’t their only problem.


 
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