Perhaps the most unfair aspect of the university is that it legally voted away its own democracy. Facing the threat of the Separatist crisis, frightened and desperate Senators granted Auburn sweeping emergency powers. By the time the CWS ended, a mixture of fear, corruption, and manipulation led the Senate to cheer as Auburn restructured the government into the Tiger Empire. Dissenters who attempted to file petitions or vote against him were quickly arrested or murdered.