However, student representatives have warned that proposed cuts to the lower bands of EMA would be "disastrous".
The three-day event will see student representatives take part in debates and vote for a new national leadership.
Tonight student representatives have shown that the vast majority of St Andrews students are much better than this sort of puerile and offensive behaviour.
After the student representatives were finished, Hammerlinck gave a response.
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The committee also heard from student representatives, including Garry Quigley, president of the University of the West of Scotland Students' Association and Christina Andrews from the University of Stirling Students' Union.
The protesters also ask for student and trade union representatives to be fully represented and informed during all stages of future processes and decision making.
In response to the strike, she has set up a national advisory committee with over 70 members, including student, teacher and parent representatives as well as educational experts, to make recommendations on school reform.
The House of Representatives recently voted to cut the interest rate on subsidised student loans by half, to 3.4%, over five years. (The Senate and the White House have to support this for it to become law.) Even Republicans, usually supportive of private lenders, are now turning on them.
"Despite their obligations under New Jersey law and the university's own policy, neither the presidents of the university, the athletic director nor any other university representatives took any steps to assure that the rights of the student-athlete members of the men's basketball program were protected from assault (both physical and verbal), battery, harassment, intimidation, bullying, defamation and other unlawful conduct, " the lawsuit states.
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