New York University said the three-day long sit-in at a university cafeteria ended Friday afternoon.

About 20 members of a student group Take Back NYU had been holed up in the cafeteria of the Kimmel Student Center since Wednesday night.

All students who did not leave by 1 a.m. Friday were suspended.

NYU administrators and students have different stories of how the protest ended just after noon Friday.

"We're grateful it ended peacefully, we did not concede to their demands," said NYU Senior VP of University Relations Lynne Brown. "We're glad the students seem safe, and we're ready to open and get ready for business on Monday."

"We were basically stormed by security guards and administration," said NYU sophomore and protester Farah Khimji. "We were physically manhandled by both security guards and administration members. In some cases picked up thrown to the ground ganged up on, four to one."

Protesters had about a dozen demands, ranging from more transparency of school finances to scholarships for students from the Gaza Strip.

"People really have had enough, not knowing where their money's going, where tuition prices are coming from," said student protester Jane Bird.

"The primary agenda of anyone who's out here is to democratize NYU, increase student involvement in the way the university is run," said Collin Dillon, an NYU alum.

"I don't know if I'm for it or against it, but I've spent four years at a college where people whose parents are paying for things love to protest," said NYU alum Jacqueline Lawrence.

"No one knows what this is for," said NYU sophomore Tom DeGroot. "You see a Palestinian flag up there, solidarity with Gaza, and this is also somehow related to university disclosure of their budget?"

There were about 85 demonstrators barricaded inside at the height of the protest on Wednesday.

Non-NYU students that took part in the protest and left as requested today, did not get arrested for trespassing, as was previously threatened.

The New York City Police Department and school security had barricaded the student center and was monitoring the situation.

An NYU spokesman said the school offered a dialogue with the students about their demands, but said the students rejected the offer.

Student representatives, however, said the administration's offer of a dialogue hinged on the students ending their occupation, which the students refused to do.