I am sure they did that because they believe they deserve more respect than what has been communicated.

"More than 70 Students Protest Embattled Harvard Professor Comaroff’s Continued Employment"

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/13/comaroff-walkout/

“Don’t let professors be your heroes. Don’t let survivors be your heroes. We’re not heroes. We’re TFs,” Kilburn said. “We don’t have some kind of superhuman capacity to take this fight on. We are doing it anyway.”

Czerwienski said that “only a mass movement” would effectively dismantle “this broken system.”

~ Darley A.C. Boit, Charlotte P. Ritz-Jack, and Elias J. Schisgall, Crimson Staff Writers