Additional Closures

Per the orders of Jon Den, the Cabotton University Administration authorized the closure of the Great Assembly Hall, the College of the Arts, the Gymnasium, and the venue housing the Flagstaff, the Slack, and Fleming Tower. Such a closure, and subsequent leasing of venues to non-affiliated businesses, took effect on 23 May 1360.

Implications

The Cabotton University School of Music, housed in the Arts College and standing for decades as a program revered internationally, held its final concert on 8 May 1360. This, along with the realization that the Esurchians were beginning to liquidate the original landmark structures of the University, led to widespread contempt among the University students as well as a call to protest.

On 11 May, the Cabotton Scholar Foundation, under the leadership of Heather Walker, succeeded in having the International Cabotton University Trust Fund form a plan to rent the University venues previously closed down. The implication was that the Trust Fund would pay the rental fees to Jon Den's University Administration while paying educators to run re-established academics previously housed in these places. To the Cabotton student body, the Foundation made a warning not to protest against Den, citing the dangers of the Esurchian Regime. They instead called on the students to send a signed petition to the University Administration, calling on them to agree to the aforementioned deal with the Trust Fund. The students agreed to this arrangement, as the Foundation voted to officially send the petition by 2 June.