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On a protest march in Amsterdam this afternoon about a thousand students and teachers of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) come down. Along the faculty building at Roetersstraat to Binnengasthuisstraat they called to join the board of the University of Amsterdam on back. The Board members have not responded yet there, but would Friday to talk to the company and the student about the future of the board, writes the NIS.
The University of Amsterdam would have closed university buildings as a precaution.
The protesters were prior to the march addressed by campaigners fighting for more transparency and control at the university. One of them was a student who was sat in the police actions of the Maagdenhuis message news agency ANP. She repeated what teachers also wrote today in an opinion piece in nrc.next , and for which they received support from at least three hundred colleagues:
“This evacuation was completely unnecessary . This violence was pure harassment. “
UvA professor Ewald Engelen and associate professor Olav Velthuis nrc.next spoke in a” high-handed reflex “of the Executive Board.
“With another subpoena in hand and the invitation of Mayor Van der Laan to settle everything amicably ignoring the Executive Board chose, however, the long bar and the police horse ME over the fairness of the agreement. “
In discussions between the government and the protesting parties were this afternoon the occupation of the Maagdenhuis and flayed the deployment of the discussed ME. The police intervened after occupants had left the administration building in the center of Amsterdam, to further demonstrate the adjacent square. That happened after the judge decided Friday that the university should evacuate the Maagdenhuis.
The occupiers say they had indicated that they would leave the house today. However, the ‘triangle’ of municipal, police and the public prosecutor decided Saturday to action.
The way the government has dealt with the protesting students, the university now be on increasing criticism from employees. In addition, today came the news that the UvA should cut next year 16.5 million euros to pay the cost of ambitious development plans outside the city center. Especially in the faculties of Humanities and Law, this leads to financial problems.
“Obviously, the Executive Board is free to resort to this kind of means to end the occupation of its administrative center,” write Angels and Velthuis.
“Legally, the decision not to bargain. The fact remains that may be against the background of the crisis of confidence at the UvA indeed serious questions posted. No one could have to wait until Monday “
Read the opinion piece here: Time for a new Executive Board
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