By Park Si-soo Staff Reporter A court ruled in favor of Korea University students who filed an injunction to nullify the school's decision to expel them for their confinement of several professors in 2006. The Seoul Central District Court ruled Tuesday that the university should withdraw its decision to expel seven students until the court delivers a final ruling on the lawsuit regarding their expulsion. The school sought to expel the students for confining several professors in a school building for 16 hours in April 2006. In the ruling, the court said ``The students deserve punishment as they infringed upon professors' physical freedom and attempted to achieve their goals by force.'' But the court also blamed the confined professors for their bureaucratic attitude and refusal to find breakthroughs through talking with students. ``The professors, who refused to sit at the negotiation table with students, were also largely responsible for provoking the students,'' the court said. The conflict started in April 2006 when Korea University (KU) merged with the College of Health Sciences, Korea University (CHSKU). KU students clamed that students from CHSKU should be given voting rights for elections selecting student representatives, while the school authorities turned down the suggestion. Hundreds of KU students visited the school's headquarters on April 5, 2006, to deliver a letter of complaint to professors handling the school's administration affairs to no avail. In response, students kept some professors from leaving the building for 16 hours. Following the incident, the school took disciplinary measures against 19 students, including seven who were expelled. The expelled undergraduates filed a lawsuit against KU with the Seoul Central District Court in July 2006 to void the decision and the court sided with the students. KU appealed the case and the students responded with another lawsuit, along with an injunction to nullify the school's dismissal decision in November of 2007. pss@koreatimes.co.kr