Like all universities, there has been a tradition of student protest in AMU too, but every time there is unrest among students, the first line of action is to call in teachers whose role as pro-proctors is to negotiate with them and keep the protests peaceful. Prof. Aftab Alam, who teaches in the department of political science, said that this step was bypassed by the vice-chancellor and the proctor. “I am a member of the steering committee and I did not even receive a message that the police was being called in to the campus by the vice-chancellor’s office," he said.