In New Haven, Conn., students at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) are unhappy about a professor accused of sexual assault returning to campus, the New Haven Register reported.

The professor, David Chevan, of the music department, and the victim, Wendy Wyler, a graduate of SCSU in 2012, recently settled a lawsuit, but there is still a pending one against the school.

The incident occurred in 2011, when Wyler said Chevan led her into a storage room with no windows and made sexual advances on her while blocking her only exit.

"The professor's office is right over there and he's inside," Wyler said, pointing to a window at SCSU's Earl Hall prior to the protest. "The main goal today is to have him removed from campus. This man should not be around students. He's clearly a predator."

The school found Chevan to have violated SCSU's sexual harassment policies, although he denies the accusations against him. For punishment, the school suspended him for two weeks without pay, but now he is back at his job.

Heidi Howkins Lockwood, an associate professor of philosophy at SCSU, said, as an individual and not on behalf of the school, that sexual assault on college campuses is "an epidemic."

"Each and every one of us knows someone who is suffering this fate," Lockwood, a survivor of sexual misconduct some 20 years ago, said.

The demonstrators had numerous demands past having Chevan fired. First, they wanted the school to issue a formal apology on the case as a whole, as well as reevaluate and change their policies on how to handle acts of sexual misconduct. They also demanded all complaints be reported to the school's Title IX coordinator and to have accusers face no academic recoil.

"Southern Connecticut State University does not tolerate sexual harassment in any form," the school's president Mary Papazian said in a statement. "It is critical that our students, staff and faculty work in an environment that celebrates their unique talents and supports their individual contributions."

Chevan's attorney, David R. Schaefer, said he was displeased with Wyler's actions after the two sides had settled for an undisclosed agreement.

"But she has obviously not stopped trying to harm my client," Schaefer said. "We find it offensive that she continues to tell these falsehoods."

However, Wyler said she is experiencing lingering effects like feeling alone even when surrounded. Added Wyler, "To be honest, I'm still afraid to be in an enclosed space with a man."