Juilliard Students Protest Tuition Increase With Marches and Music

The Juilliard College, one of many world’s main performing arts conservatories, is healthier identified for recitals than picket traces. However college students protesting a deliberate tuition improve occupied components of its Lincoln Middle campus this week and, once they had been later barred from getting into a college constructing, led music- and dance-filled protests on West sixty fifth Avenue.

The protests started Monday when a gaggle of scholars, objecting to plans to lift tuition to $51,230 a 12 months from $49,260, occupied components of the varsity’s Irene Diamond constructing and posted photos on social media of dozens of sheets of multicolored paper arranged to kind the phrases “TUITION FREEZE.”

On Wednesday, college students stated, they acquired an e mail from the administration saying that “faculty house” couldn’t be used for nonschool occasions with out permission. “Posting signage, posters or fliers, tabling within the foyer, solicitation or distributing print supplies additionally requires advance authorization,” the message added.

Students returned to the Diamond constructing that day, marching by means of the halls and stopping outdoors the door of the varsity’s president, Damian Woetzel. At one level, some stated, they knocked on his door, chanting: “We all know you’re in there. Will you meet college students’ wants and freeze tuition?”

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