LSU Board of Supervisors Chair Scott Ballard told the Reveille Thursday that he hopes the seven student protesters arrested at Wednesday’s presidential search committee meeting don’t suffer criminal consequences. She told the Reveille Thursday that her court date is in January, and the other arrested students also have upcoming court dates. The other five students were arrested for resisting an officer and obstruction of highway commerce. In a press conference Thursday morning in Free Speech Alley, members of SDS claimed Ballard had called EBR law enforcement to request that charges against the student protesters be dropped. LSU has not yet confirmed if it intends to bring any student conduct penalties against the protesters.