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PROTEST IN YEREVAN: DEANS THREATEN STUDENTS WITH PROBLEMS
February 25, 2013 - 13:37 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of students has announced boycott of classes
outside Yerevan State University (YSU) building to protest the results
of Feb 18 presidential elections.
As Heritage party representative Daniel Ionisyan told a press briefing,
the action was not planned beforehand, voicing disagreement with the
standpoint slamming students' involvement in political processes.
"Students must be the most active group of the society. They must
decide on the country's future. I think, candidates must be invited to
the universities and brief the students on their election programs,"
Ionisyan said, noting student protests as a tool to fight corruption
in the universities.
In conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, YSU vice-rector
Ruben Markosyan voiced concern over interruption of classes, despite
the respect they show for the students' rights.
"Such actions hamper the learning process," he said, adding the number
of the protesters totaled about 250 out of 19 thous. YSU students.
Commenting on students remarks suggesting university deans threatened
with different problems, Mr Markosyan described them as mere
misunderstanding.
From: Baghdasarian
February 25, 2013 - 13:37 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of students has announced boycott of classes
outside Yerevan State University (YSU) building to protest the results
of Feb 18 presidential elections.
As Heritage party representative Daniel Ionisyan told a press briefing,
the action was not planned beforehand, voicing disagreement with the
standpoint slamming students' involvement in political processes.
"Students must be the most active group of the society. They must
decide on the country's future. I think, candidates must be invited to
the universities and brief the students on their election programs,"
Ionisyan said, noting student protests as a tool to fight corruption
in the universities.
In conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, YSU vice-rector
Ruben Markosyan voiced concern over interruption of classes, despite
the respect they show for the students' rights.
"Such actions hamper the learning process," he said, adding the number
of the protesters totaled about 250 out of 19 thous. YSU students.
Commenting on students remarks suggesting university deans threatened
with different problems, Mr Markosyan described them as mere
misunderstanding.
From: Baghdasarian