Monday, August 30, 2010

Protest Update

I got some more information about what happened on campus last week, and it's a bigger deal than I thought!
Apparently, some students stormed an administration meeting on Thursday and took over the building, and Friday took over another building (which is why the rest of the buildings were evacuated). I'm not sure who the students were exactly, but they were hooded, covering their identity. Over the weekend, the students met with admin and negotiated some type of deal, that included them avoiding punishment for what they did (including breaking some windows I think). I'm not sure how aggressive these students were, but just the fact that they were hooded and concealing their identity definitely is a bit scary and takes the "peaceful" protest up a notch. Maybe that was their goal to be overly dramatic but not violent?

This morning, there was some shouting, chanting and a march of some sort, regarding the president of the student association (FEUCR) . . as for now though I think things are back to normal.

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