Emory students pass 'no confidence' vote against university president

Emory University undergraduate students overwhelmingly voted in favor of a no-confidence referendum against President Gregory Fenves after police cracked down on an anti-Israel protest on campus in Atlanta.

About 3,400 members of the 8,100 undergraduate student body voted with 73% voting no confidence in the school's president, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.

The results were 2,499 in favor of the motion, 844 opposed and 58 students who abstained. 

The student vote, conducted on an online portal called the Emory Hub, comes less than a week after the Faculty Senate for Emory College of Arts and Sciences voted 358-119 in favor of a "Motion of No Confidence and Demand for Redress" over Fenves' handling of the protests, FOX 5 Atlanta reported. 

In response to the vote, the university released a statement that said, "31% of the total undergraduate student body voted in favor of the motion. While we take any concerns expressed by members of our community seriously, Emory community members are sharing a wide range of perspectives that are not reflected in the motion passed by SGA."

Dozens of protesters were arrested after Fenves called police to campus to break up an anti-Israel encampment on April 25.