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A special committee formed by Wesleyan University has issued a report detailing an event that occurred last May in which campus police and students were unable to see eye-to-eye. Just before graduation last year, a backyard concert held on Fountain Avenue, near a block of university housing, grew to nearly 130 students. The report concluded that when campus police were unable to disperse the crowd, the crowd grew to nearly 300, at which point the campus police called in the aid of Middletown police, who forcibly cleared the streets using pepper spray, police dogs, and pepper ball guns. Five students were arrested, and the incident left many students stewing over the summer. The committee report had three goals: to establish a detailed narrative of the event with relative objectivity, to detail the differing viewpoints of those involved, and to outline specific ongoing concerns and polices to revise. The student who sat on the committee said he feels this is a good first step to resolving the tensions that in incident caused.

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