The Disciplinary Council at the office of the Dean of Student Affairs of the Mutah University ordered the expulsion of 61 students on Sunday following their conviction for involvement in recent riots on the campus. The council also issued warnings against 100 other students, which will go into effect starting next semester. The decision, part of a crackdown following a recent spike in violence in the Kingdom’s universities, was taken at the behest of legal committees formed to investigate recent brawls involving students at the Mutah University in the southern governorate of Karak. “The decision was taken in the interest of the university’s education system and to safeguard it as a major national achievement which supplements the country by nurturing distinguished scientific skills,” the committees said.