The eight members of Students for Economic and Social Justice met individually with Charles Couture, UM dean of students, and were all given three days of suspension and instructed to write two letters of apology, one to Dennison and one to his office staff.
"I don’t agree with the charges,” said Matt Fennell, an SESJ member who participated in the sit-in, “but that doesn’t mean I’m going to protest them.”
Story by Jeff Osteen Montana Kaimin
Full Story: http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/news/news_article/dean_of_students_hands_down_suspensions_for_sit_in/
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Administration abusing power with suspensions
Bill Oram Montana Kaimin
Any notion that the University of Montana administration respected student protesters was unceremoniously quashed Tuesday.
One by one, eight members of Students for Economic and Social Justice entered the office of the Dean of Students, and individually they came out, slapped with three-day suspensions from the University, and were required to write letters of apology to President George Dennison and his office staff.