The leadership of the Junior Common Room (JCR) of the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana has withdrawn the legal action that challenges the University authorities for attempting to change the status of the hall into a mixed graduate hall. Some representatives of the hall in May this year sued the authorities of the university for attempting to change the status of the hall. The plaintiffs, by a motion dated October 7, 2010 and an affidavit signed by the President of the hall, Mr Joseph Laari, claimed they had the consent of the members of the hall to depose to the affidavit. The legal counsel of the University, Ms Akyaa Arhin, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said the affidavit stated that the students were discontinuing the action against the University, meaning "the plaintiffs in the case have withdrawn all claims in their suit". She said the judge, Mr Justice K.A. Ofori-Atta, upon hearing the plaintiff's motion in court, ordered that the case be discontinued and the action struck out. Ms Arhin expressed satisfaction with the latest development, saying, "The University is satisfied as this means that at the moment, there are no further processes pending against the University in court so far as this matter is concerned." She, however, declined to comment on the position of the University on the status of the hall. It would be recalled that earlier this year, the authorities of the University decided that with effect from the 2010/2011 academic year, the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana would no longer be a single sex hall. The hall, which has over the past 54 years served as an all-male hall, was to be turned into a mixed hall for graduate students of the University. According to the authorities, the behaviour of residents of the all-male hall over the years had cast a slur on the image of the University, justifying it with an incident at the last graduation ceremony, where it was alleged that students from the hall heckled former United Nations boss and Chancellor of the University, Mr Kofi Annan. Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana