Students fight for three days

Students fight for three days

UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: After a three-day brawl among
students, Hasanuddin University closed on Thursday and will
resume activities on Saturday.

Assistant to the rector Amran Razak said the measure was taken
to prevent further victims and material losses.

The brawl started on Monday when a student of the School of
Letters reportedly hit an engineering student. The dispute spread
and on Wednesday 18 were admitted to Wahidin Sudirohusodo
Hospital. Dozens of rooms at the School of Social and Political
Sciences and the School of Letters were damaged. Shattered glass
was also found on the grounds of other schools.

The campus is now quiet and police are guarding the entrance.

Amran raised suspicions on outside parties wanting to cause
rifts between students, mainly those involved in election
monitoring. He cited reports of unknown people dropping weapons,
including homemade rifles and bows and arrows. The people were in
passing vehicles during the brawl.

"After seeing the injured victims we believed there were
outside parties wanting to pit students against each another," he
told The Jakarta Post. (27)