Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Protest closes admissions office

Students staging sit-in call on Levin to make financial aid changes

Staff Reporters, Staff Reporters
Published Friday, February 25, 2005

Fifteen students held an all-day sit-in at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions on Thursday while more than 150 others rallied on their behalf, calling on Yale President Richard Levin to make sweeping changes to student financial aid policies.

The students occupied the admissions office on Hillhouse Avenue from 10 a.m. until about 7 p.m, when Yale Police cited them for trespassing. The admissions office, which was guarded by police, locked its doors to visitors all day and rerouted all campus tours to the Visitor's Center on Elm Street to keep the protesters from disrupting...

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