April 13, 2012. CBS News 12 reports chanting students storm administration building with bullhorn
(April 12, 2012)
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Students at Florida Atlantic University gathered today to protest against budget cuts that are forcing some of their classes to be cancelled.
Students protested outside the administration building Thursday afternoon. They’re angry over what they call unfair and arbitrary reductions in summer courses. Almost 1,000 courses have been cut this year.
Protestors held signs and chanted “cut our courses, cut our future.” They stood on the administration building steps and at one point even went inside to confront school officials, but they got kicked out by FAU police.
The Florida Legislature hit FAU with an unprecedented $30 million in budget cuts for the coming year. For some students the cuts will delay graduation by a semester or a year because a required course is not offered in the summer. They also say classes were slashed by administrators with no input from students or faculty.
“It’s really depressing, it’s sad. I got my undergraduate from FAU and I decided to come back here. It is just a shock the university wouldn’t go through their own staff, let alone their students,” said Monique Paramore, FAU graduate student.
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