{"id":25253,"date":"2023-02-27T01:02:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/?p=25253"},"modified":"2023-02-27T01:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:08:39","slug":"students-occupy-fanning-for-the-fourth-time-in-connecticut-college-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/2023\/02\/27\/students-occupy-fanning-for-the-fourth-time-in-connecticut-college-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Occupy Fanning for the Fourth Time in Connecticut College History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Photos courtesy of Robbie Lynch ’24<\/p>

On Sunday, Feb. 26 at 10:25 p.m., around 30 students entered Fanning Hall to occupy the building in protest against the current administration\u2019s handling of<\/span> Dean Rodmon King\u2019s recent resignation<\/span><\/a>. Fanning holds administrative offices, including that of President Bergeron, and various classrooms. Students entered the building equipped with supplies to last up to five days, including sleeping pads and bags, suitcases filled with necessities and limited food supplies.<\/span><\/p>

As student activists entered Fanning, campus security attempted to stop the protest, entering buildings and banging on locked doors. Students quickly moved upstairs and barricaded themselves on the upper floors. Campus Safety chased students around the area; a student said that one officer called out, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be f*cking kidding me. Stop. Stop.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

While student activists locked themselves in Fanning, large crowds of students gathered across campus, attempting to divert the attention of campus security away from the academic building. Students drove around campus, honking horns and blaring music. Others gathered in the MOBROC Barn to play music as loudly as possible. Various songs, through speakers and the voices of hundreds of students, rang out across campus. Students in South Campus screamed and chanted for change. One student even blared a trumpet while walking alongside Tempel Green.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In accordance with <\/span>Student Voices for Equity\u2019s list of demands<\/span><\/a>, \u201c<\/span>Should the BOT fail to meet our demands, SVE is devoted to advocating until they are met. This alliance is not temporary and will remain persistent for the improvement of Connecticut College.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Students have occupied Fanning Hall three times<\/span> <\/a>in the past: first in 1971, then in 1986, and recently in 2016 during President Bergeron\u2019s tenure. Fanning has once again become a symbol of student dissent at Connecticut College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previous Next Photos courtesy of Robbie Lynch ’24 On Sunday, Feb. 26 at 10:25 p.m., around 30 students entered Fanning Hall to occupy the building in protest against the current administration\u2019s handling of Dean Rodmon King\u2019s recent resignation. Fanning holds administrative offices, including that of President Bergeron, and various classrooms. Students entered the building equipped …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":62481,"featured_media":25252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-occupy-cc-2023"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_5742-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25267,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25253\/revisions\/25267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}