Cambridge University student suspended for poem
LONDON—Hundreds have protested at Cambridge University over the 2 1/2-year suspension of a student who interrupted a politician's speech with a poem.
Graduate student Owen Holland was this week banned until October 2014 by the university's Court of Discipline. He disrupted a November speech by Universities Minister David Willetts with a poem entitled "Go Home, David."
Before the suspension, dozens of staff and students wrote a letter saying they had also taken part in the Willetts protest and asking for the same punishment.
The Cambridge University Student Union said 500 people attended a demonstration against the suspension on Friday.
Protests have erupted at British universities since the government tripled maximum tuition fees to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year.
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