Scary, stressful and detrimental to their future chances of employment. That's how students described studying at the Tshwane University of Technology's volatile Soshan-guve north and south campuses.Students are protesting about being barred from attending class for failing to pay fees.Several students have been suspended over the violence.Both north and south campuses were shut down for a month yesterday.That came with the order for students to vacate their residences.Students hurried to comply, carrying away fridges and bags of belongings.Broken palisade fencing, shattered glass and smouldering tyres that were strewn around the campuses bore testimony to the violence that spilled over from last week.Students who claim they want nothing to do with the violence on campus put the blame squarely on the university authorities' failure to deal with their rowdy counterparts who, they claim, are "serial failures and dropouts", and accuse them of holding the university to ransom.A final year paralegal student, who asked not to be named for fear of victimisation, said her stay at the campus had been "hell".She said she could not wait to complete her studies so that she could leave the campus for good."Every year here starts with violence, with us being forced to join the violence."She said the protesters' attitude was "if we cannot study then nobody will".The university has had millions of rands' worth of damage to its property through violent protests, which have left a student dead and another injured.University spokesman Willa de Ruyter said there was a "third force" operating on the Soshanguve campus.She said a meeting with parents, students and other stakeholders was scheduled for later this month."It is a high priority to sort out this issue. There has been a level of intimidation, anxiety and fear," De Ruyter said.Student representative council president Sthembiso ka Shandu said the students would continue to protest until the issue of financial exclusion was addressed...