Concordia class disrupted by students banging pots and pans

Thousands of students are set to take to the street today to protest the government's budget cuts, but members ofConcordia's political science students' associationdecided to get a head start and began their strike on Wednesday.

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At least two political science classes were disrupted yesterday when protestors came in banging pots and pans.

Laura Marchand, a student in one of the classes, says two of the protestors came in before the class beganto ask the professor to cancel.

Prof. Graham Doddsdecided to hold a vote and the overwhelming majority of the students voted to have the class continue.

It was at that point more than twenty protestors came in the class and chanted. Marchand says they stayed for an hour and a half.

"At one point, they were just walking in circles around the room. They began singing. I think at this point, it was just a matter of making noise to disrupt the class more then anything else," Marchand says.

Marchand said she also noticed protestors in another political science class down the hall.