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The boom in the rest of the state comes from oil, but the boom at the University of North Dakota’s student senate meeting last week came from outrage at the administration for its tuition proposals – to the extent students understood them.

The school’s president, provost and VPs for finance and student affairs narrowly avoided a no-confidence vote after three hours of debate when the senate tabled the resolution, the Dakota Student reports.

That resolution will come back up at tonight’s senate meeting, however:

“This was seen as a last resort to myself and other members of student leadership,” [student body president Tanner] Franklin said. “This was considered a nuclear option. Mistrust is floating around the Student Government office between my office and the administration. The issue here is not about tuition models, but is about transparency.”

When three tuition models were first presented to Student Government, there were no numbers attached to one of the tuition models.

President Robert Kelley strongly rebutted Franklin’s claim that the administration was hiding anything from students.

He turned the tables on the student leader by claiming the senate has not “really effectively represented” students this year and accusing Franklin of missing Kelley’s cabinet meetings and “declining personal invitations,” the Student reported.

The senate passed the other two resolutions, rejecting administration models that would raise tuition 10.5 percent and 12.3 percent.

Protesters also showed up, claiming the meeting was “illegal and against the by-laws of the senate.”

Kelley, by the way, defended a ludicrously unfair campus judicial process on sexual-assault allegations against a student, even after “state police lodged criminal charges against his accuser for filing a false police report,” as civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate wrote four years ago.

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