Striking drama students demand resignation of university board
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Students blockading Budapest’s Theatre and Film University have demanded the resignation of the new board of curators, a body which is to run the university from Sept. 1.
The students, who occupied the building late on Monday, told a press conference that they rejected the recent law changing the structure in which the university is supposed to operate, as well as “the members of the board of curators and those of the supervisory board, and the way they were appointed”. They said they also rejected the university’s new deeds adopted by the new operator, and “any, arbitrarily appointed new leadership”.
The students have demanded the restoration of the powers of the university senate, and that the state continue to provide funding.
Under recent legislation, the drama university is controlled by the Theatre and Film Art Foundation, headed by Attila Vidnyánszky, director of the National Theatre.
The university’s leadership and entire senate tendered their resignation in protest against the changes on Monday.
toss their collective asses in jail. expel them as needed and move on. enough of this we want, we are offended, etc etc blah blah ad nauseum.