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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) -- Fifteen Yale students staged a sit-in at the university's admissions office Thursday while nearly 100 others rallied outside urging the school to offer more financial aid.</p>
<p>The 10-hour demonstration ended peacefully Thursday evening when police led the 15 students out of the building and cited them for trespassing.</p>
<p>Some protesters called on Yale President Richard Levin to reduce by half the amount of money students on financial aid are required to pay. The students said families earning less than $40,000 a year should not have to contribute any money.</p>
<p>A Yale undergraduate education, including tuition, room, board and other fees, costs about $41,000 a year. About 40 percent of Yale undergraduates receive financial aid.</p>
<p>The average package is more than $20,000, Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said. He added that Levin already has said he will announce changes to the financial aid policy in coming weeks.</p>
<p>The student group that organized the protest is loosely associated with a group of graduate students trying to form a union.
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