 This led the Wesleyan student group, Students for Ending the War in Iraq (SEWI), to lead a campaign for Wesleyan's divestment from weapons contractors, with various conservative student detractors, as well as actions on part of the Wesleyan Student Assembly.In 2008, the Wesleyan Board of Trustees (on which Roth sits) declined to divest from weapon contractors.Scott Backer was fired from Wesleyan as Associate Dean of Students in October of 2016 when a Boston Globe article was released, revealing he was fired from Vermont Academy in 2007 for predatory behavior with a student.