According to University President Rebecca Cunningham, the vandals oppose the sale of university property to the aerospace company North Wind.

Some University of Minnesota students are protesting the U’s sale of UMore Park land in Rosemount to a local aerospace company that officials say is working with the Department of Defense. At Friday’s Board of Regents meeting,

University of Minnesota officials said that the homes of the schools Board of Regents members were vandalized, apparently by protesters upset about the school's plan to sell land to an aerospace testing firm.