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Meanwhile, in a notification, the Jadavpur University announced new admission dates to humanities streams on July 27, 28, 30 and 31. The Vice-Chancellor left the campus along with other senior varsity officials including the Registrar and Pro-VC, a Jadavpur University Teachers' Association spokesman said. The Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University and other executive council members were allowed to leave the varsity late last night, following a 30-hour gherao (protest) by a section of a students' union in protest against the move to scrap admission tests for six humanities subjects. "We are also participating in a three-hour sit-in demonstration before Aurobindo Bhavan today to voice our protest against this move, which may lower the academic standard of the Jadavpur University arts faculty," the spokesman said. He said Jadavpur University Teachers' Association was observing a cessation in work in the university today, taking exception to the Executive Council decision to admit students to six humanities streams based on marks obtained in the board examinations..