Scores of students from the American University of Beirut protested after a confrontation between the administration and students led to the revocation of more than a dozen graduate students’ assistantship positions.

“AUB how could you? Shame, shame, shame on you,” the crowd shouted as they made their way to West Hall, which houses the Student Affairs office.The demonstration came after an overnight altercation on campus. Students pitched a tent on Nov. 9 outside the main administrative building to protest a draft policy change in May that saw the cancellation of monthly stipends for graduate assistantships.

On November 20, two students were reportedly forcibly removed from that tent during the night.After the tent protest, 13 students saw their assistantships revoked, and the position’s tuition-fee waiver along with it.