CLASSE calls it quits

Members of student group La CLASSE decided to call it quits this weekend.

The majority of CLASSE's members voted to disband the group at a conference at UQAM on Saturday.

According to the Montreal Gazette, CLASSE later released a statement celebrating their victories in the student movement against tuition hikes.

Despite becoming a household name since last spring's "Printemps Erable," the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarite syndicale etudiante wasn't around for very long.

It was created in December 2011 in response to the former Liberal provincial government's plans to increase tuition fees.

Meanwhile, former CLASSE spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is also making headlines.

On Thursday he was found guilty of contempt of court for encouraging protestors in a television interview to continue picketing.

Nadeau-Dubois' endorsement came just after a judge granted an injunction allowing a Universite Laval student to return to classes.

Now the student leader is appealing the ruling and asking the public for help paying his legal fees.

The Canadian Press reported that Nadeau-Dubois has so far raised $58 000.

STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY