A handful of students are still agitating in the M T B Arts college campus, but are fast losing support, even from among other fellow students. After Friday's rumpus on the main campus, when a group of students smashed window panes of the administrative block, the agitators were riding high. However, their enthusiasm ebbed when they found no support from any member of the Syndicate, despite the vertical split in the statutory body.

The Academic Council is again meeting on Wednesday to discuss the students' demand of over all option in the annual examination. The Council, at its meeting on Friday, had accepted the demand for covering only 50 per cent syllabus and a 50-mark internal test but unanimously rejected the demand for over all option. The leaders went on rampage in protest.

Students are seeking concessions citing days lost during flood in Surat and the 26-day teachers' strike. However, though the floods occurred only in Surat, students of colleges affiliated to SGU in five other districts will also be affected by any decision of the statutory body. The agitation is on only in Surat colleges.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, which had issued a statement requesting leaders and university officials to end the agitation, has sided with the demand made by students. It has, however, denounced the violent method adopted by a few students.

Meanwhile, in view of the damage to the university property, police bandobast has been stepped up in sensitive colleges, including M T B Arts, P T Science and K P Commerce, from where most such agitations are reported. The agitating students are, however, putting up a brave front. They claim they might intensify their agitation if an unfavourable decision was handed down by the Council on Wednesday.