By Daniel Reyes
Roughly 100 students, as well as a handful of faculty and staff, marched in protest, on Feb. 16, to Senator Raymond Lesniak’s office, the day after the board of trustees announced their decision to keep President DawoodFarahi.
The peaceful march, organized by Occupy Kean University, started outside the University Center at 3:30 p.m. and followed Morris Avenue west to Stuyvesant Avenue, where Lesniak’s office is located, just over two miles. Lesniak was in a voting session in Trenton at the time.
Student Gizeth Cruz left a statement with an employee in Lesniak’s office.
“We as students have a right to a scandal-free environment,” she read to the protesters outside Lesniak’s office. “We call for Senator Lesniak to push for the resignation of Dr. Farahi, as he is the face ofKean.”
Student Katie Arzig, Psychology, urged students and faculty members, who were scared of retribution, to speak out.
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