Student Protesters To Be Disciplined

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago said Friday that the university will discipline students who tried to enter the building that houses his office a day earlier, saying the university will not tolerate assemblies that become violent.

Santiago said in a statement that the school will pursue charges against the 13 students and two other protesters who were arrested Thursday on suspicion of unlawful assembly, disorderly conduct and throwing hard objects.

UWM Police officers said the protesters punched them while trying to rush Chapman Hall during the rally against the rising cost of college and against budget cuts for university departments. Officers discharged pepper spray into the air to get students to back away from officers who had been pushed into the doors of the building, school officials said.

“For these individuals who demonstrated no respect for our campus community, we will pursue legal action and, for the students, we will review whether any university rules were violated that require additional action,” Santiago said.

Discipline by the university could range from a verbal reprimand to expulsion.

If they are expelled, then they won’t have to worry about the cost of education.