Students at Baruch College yesterday clashed with NYPD cops and campus secuarity officers during a protest over proposed tuition hikes — resulting in more than a dozen demonstrators getting busted, authorities said.
Hundreds of students began marching at 3 p.m. from Madison Square Park to the school at Lexington Avenue and East 24th Street.
City University Trustees were holding a public meeting at the time to discuss whether to raise fees as much as $300 in each of the next four years.
More than 95 speakers had signed up to and the room was filled to capacity, a CUNY spokesman said.
“I am totally against the tuition hikes, that’s mainly why everyone is here,” one student told the college paper, The Ticker.
“We’re protesting tuition hikes, we’re protesting the federal grants that Congress is trying to reduce.”
Some of the demonstrators were told to head to an overflow room but instead pushed through barricades and forced their way into the lobby.
They were twice told to leave or head towards the overflow room.
Those that didn’t were arrested.
They were being processed by campus cops at the 13th Precinct station house. Five people face charges including criminal trespass, attempted grand larceny and resisting arrest.
Ten others got summonses.
CUNY said one campus officer was taken to a hospital for chest pains and two others suffered minor injuries during the scuffle .